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The Great Platte River Road: The Covered Wagon Mainline via Fort Kearny to Fort
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The Great Platte River Road: The Covered Wagon Mainline via Fort Kearny to Fort Laramie (Great Plains Photography) Paperback - 1987

by Merrill J. Mattes

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Lincoln : Bison Books, 1987. First edition. Paperback. Very Good/No Dj. 8vo. pp. xiii, (31) maps, 583, b/w sketch illustrations, "" The Great Platte River Road through Nebraska and Wyoming was the grand corridor of America's westward expansion. A number of famous trails converged in the broad valley of the Platte, forming a kind of primitive superhighway for the great covered wagon migration from 1841 to 1866.…
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Merrill J. Mattes based his monumental work on an examination of more than seven hundred overland journals. He has included a chronology, original maps, contemporary sketches, modern photographs, and a comprehensive bibliography.