Report in the Form of a Journal, the March of the Regiment of Mounted Riflemen to Oregon in 1849
Author: Osborne Cross
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Published: 1967-01-01
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ISBN-13: 9780877700081
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Author: Osborne Cross
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Published: 1967-01-01
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ISBN-13: 9780877700081
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Publisher: Fairfield, Wash. : Ye Galleon Press
Published: 1967
Total Pages: 218
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Published: 1850
Total Pages: 119
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Published: 1850
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Published: 1851
Total Pages: 121
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Published: 1851
Total Pages: 125
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Raymond W. Settle
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
Published: 1989-01-01
Total Pages: 386
ISBN-13: 9780803291966
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIt was an awesome sight, that regiment of Mounted Riflemen slowly marching up the Oregon Trail, already crowded with gold seekers and their animals in 1849. In May of that year five companies of men and 171 supply wagons started from Fort Leavenworth on a five-month, two-thousand-mile march that would take them to Fort Vancouver. After distinguished service in the Mexican War, the rifle regiment had mustered out and then reorganized for the purpose of establishing and garrisoning forts along the Oregon Trail. The March of the Mounted Riflemen, first published in 1940, is important as the only complete record of one of the longest marches ever made. Most of the book is devoted to the journal of the quartermaster, Major Osborne Cross, which describes the experience of recruits unprepared for such an undertaking. There were numerous desertions among the soldiers and teamsters, who were faced with a cholera epidemic and the heavy loss of horses and mules in poor grazing country, but for those who finally crossed the Cascades there was pleasure in spectacular scenery and interest in dealing with friendly Indians. Included is the journal of George Gibbs, a civilian artist and naturalist who accompanied the marchers, and a report by Colonel William Wing Loring, the commanding officer Together, these primary documents offer valuable information about the Oregon Trail and the great emigration of 1849.
Author: Robert Rogers Hubach
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
Published: 1998
Total Pages: 180
ISBN-13: 9780814328095
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFirst published in 1961, Early Midwestern Travel Narratives records and describes first-person records of journeys in the frontier and early settlement periods which survive in both manuscript and print. Geographically, it deals with the states once part of the Old Northwest Territory-Ohio, Indiana, Michigan, Illinois, Wisconsin, and Minnesota-and with Missouri, Iowa, Kansas, and Nebraska. Robert Hubach arranged the narratives in chronological order and makes the distinction among diaries (private records, with contemporaneously dated entries), journals (non-private records with contemporaneously dated entries), and "accounts," which are of more literary, descriptive nature. Early Midwestern Travel Narratives remains to this day a unique comprehensive work that fills a long existing need for a bibliography, summary, and interpretation of these early Midwestern travel narratives.
Author: United States. War Department
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Published: 1848
Total Pages: 904
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Published: 1899
Total Pages: 102
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