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The Great Platte River Road: The Covered Wagon Mainline via Fort Kearny to Fort Laramie
The Great Platte River Road The Covered Wagon Mainline via Fort Kearny to Fort Laramie
Author: Merrill J. Mattes
The Great Platte River Road through Nebraska and Wyoming was the grand corridor of America's westward expansion. A number of famous trails converged in the broad valley of the Platte, forming a kind of primitive superhighway for the great covered wagon migration from 1841 to 1866. From jumping-off places along the Missouri River?notably t...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780803231245
ISBN-10: 0803231245
Publication Date: 10/1/1987
Pages: 616
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Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Book Type: Hardcover
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