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WEST OF THE RIVER by Dorothy Gardiner

WEST OF THE RIVER

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Pub Date: March 21st, 1941
Publisher: Crowell

A history of American expansion, of the routes west of the Missouri, of the travelers, white men and Indians, of expeditions, fur trading, motive power, of animals, wagons and stagecoaches, of soldiers, of freighters, of ways of communication, of Indian Wars, of the coming of the railroad and the destruction of the Old West. This is not a book for straight reading so much as for reference.