Written as letters for his young daughter, Robert Vaughn’s reminiscences follow him from his first home to Illinois, across the plains, and into the Montana gold rush of the 1860s. He tells of the Yellowstone stampede, the discovery of Alder Gulch, prospecting parties, express riders charging a dollar a letter, conflicts with the Native nations and the long settlement of the territory.
A first-hand pioneer record for Montana and Western readers, written with a settler’s attitudes of 1900. Download the free EPUB.