Answering Greeley’s call to go west, young Charles Young crossed the plains to Denver in 1865, along the Platte River trail before any railroad ran beyond the Missouri. He describes Fort Kearny, an attack on the trail, Denver’s mint, saloons and gamblers, and life in the West of the late 1860s.
A short, plain-spoken eyewitness account of the overland trail, for readers of frontier history. Download the free EPUB.