Platte River Road Narratives

Name: Platte River Road Narratives
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ISBN: 9780252013423

ISBN-10: 0252013425

ISBN-13: 9780252013423

Edition: 1988

Authors: Merrill Mattes

List price: $100.00

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This massive annotated bibliography of all known significant eyewitness accounts of 19th-century central overland travel fills a conspicuous gap in historical literature, and will greatly accelerate future research, writing, and collecting in this important phase of western Americana. Platte River Road Narratives includes not only all identifiable published overland accounts, but also a far greater number of all identifiable accounts in manuscript form only. The format for over 2,000 entries allows for systematic identification of the author, the form of the passage, overland trip highlights, and Matte's authoritative commentary and evaluation, as well as identification of…

Book details

List price: $100.00
Copyright year: 1988
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Publication date: 1/1/1988
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 648
Size: 8.50" wide x 11.00" long x 1.60" tall
Weight: 1.474
Language: English