Joseph Lewis French

CONTENTS

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Vital Pages in American History[ vii]
Preface[ ix]
The Unbroken Wild (1804)[ 1]
From Lewis and Clark’s Journals
Jim Beckwourth’s Narrative (1824)[ 15]
From “Autobiography of James P. Beckwourth”
The Pathfinder: In the High Rockies (1842), By John C. Frémont[37]
From Frémont’s Journal of the First Expedition
The Wilderness Hunter (1845), By J. B. Ruxton[ 56]
From “Adventures in Mexico and the Rocky Mountains”
At Fort Laramie (1846), By Francis Parkman[ 72]
From “The Oregon Trail”
Gold! Gold! Sutter’s Fort (1848-1849), By Charles Pettigrew[ 86]
From the Caledonian
A Frontier Duel (1848), By Emerson Hough[ 115]
From “The Covered Wagon”
El Dorado, By Bayard Taylor[ 124]
From “Eldorado”
Frémont’s Great Ride (1849), By Frederick S. Dellenbaugh[ 158]
From “Frémont and ’49”
The Luck of Roaring Camp, By Bret Harte[161]
From “The Luck of Roaring Camp and Other Sketches”
The City of the Saints, By Sir Richard Burton[174]
From “The City of the Saints and Across the Rocky Mountains to California”
On the Comstock (1860), By J. Ross Browne[202]
From “A Peep at Washoe” and “Washoe Revisited”
Alder Gulch (1863), By Nathaniel P. Langford[231]
From “Vigilante Days and Ways”
Cheyennes and Sioux (1867), By General George A. Custer[245]
From “My Life on the Plains”
The Pony Express, By Mark Twain[268]
From “Roughing It”
Slade, By Mark Twain[270]
From “Roughing It”
General Sheridan Hunts the Buffalo, By De B. R. Keim[284]
From “On the Border with Sheridan’s Troopers”
At Tucson (1870), By Capt. John G. Bourke[296]
From “On the Border with Cook”
Told at Trinidad (1879), By A. A. Hayes, Jr.[310]
From “New Colorado and the Santa Fé Trail”
Specimen Jones, By Owen Wister[319]
From “Red Men and White”
The Land of the Straddle-Bug—Dakota (1883), By Hamlin Garland[343]
From “The Moccasin Ranch”
Old Ephraim the Grizzly, By Theodore Roosevelt[357]
From “Hunting-Trips of a Ranchman”
The Vanished Scene, By Hal G. Evarts[378]
From “The Passing of the Old West”

ILLUSTRATIONS

Dr. Steele, president of the gulch, acted as judge[ Frontispiece]
Once more the train faced the desert PAGE [ 115]
Man and horse burst past our excited faces, and go winging away like a belated fragment of a storm! “ [ 270]
The milk-cans clashed, and jones thought he felt the boy’s strokes weakening “ [ 339]

THE PIONEER WEST

THE UNBROKEN WILD

LEWIS AND CLARK

1804

Reprinted from Lewis and Clark’s Journals. July 22, 1804.