The Great Platte River Roadby Merrill J. Mattes | |
| Category: |
"U.S. History - Cultural" |
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| Pages: | 521 |
| Year of Publication: | 1969 |
| Date Added: | 08/08/2006 |
| Date Read: | 01/06/1988 |
| Notes: | Mattes incorporates over 700 journals, diaries and letters with his own effective style of writing to give vivid, down-to-earth, hard-nosed descriptions of past events in such places as Ft. Kearny, Ash Hollow, Court House Rock, Chimney Rock, Scottsbluff and culminating with Ft. Laramie. He not only communicates the difficulties endured by the emigrants themselves such as river crossings, cholera and survival, but also chronicles accounts of the Pony Express, military, Indians, stage lines, etc. and how they all played a part in Manifest Destiny. |
| My Rating: | 8 |