EXPLORING THE NORTHERN PLAINS

There's evidence of an orderly mind in locating history in the helter skelter of explorations of the northern plains between 1804 and 1876. The land mass, from Canada to Mexico, and the people who pioneered it, have their wide variations, and the 36 letters, essays and dispatches included in the collection were written by men of understanding who broke the trails. Lewis and Clark, Nicollet, Audubon and a host of others add to our knowledge here, in a compact source of information.