One drizzly spring night in 1866, six men round a stove in a Whitewater, Wisconsin store agree to go camping all the way to the Pacific. Birge recalls the outfitting, the river towns, the Great Plains and the Oregon Trail, frontier ranches like Jack Morrow’s, storms, Indians, soldiers and the society of the wilderness.
A lively first-hand overland narrative for anyone interested in the West just after the Civil War. Download the free EPUB.