- Oregon Trail, The
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The book is a breezy, first-person account of a 2 month summer tour of the U.S. states of Nebraska, Wyoming, Colorado, and Kansas when Parkman was 23.
- Chapters
- Chapter I. The Frontier
- Chapter II. Breaking the Ice
- Chapter III. Fort Leavenworth
- Chapter IV. “Jumping Off”
- Chapter V. The “Big Blue”
- Chapter VI. The Platte and the Desert
- Chapter VII. The Buffalo
- Chapter VIII. Taking French Leave
- Chapter IX. Scenes at Fort Laramie
- Chapter X. The War Parties
- Chapter XI. Scenes at the Camp
- Chapter XII. Ill-Luck
- Chapter XIII. Hunting Indians
- Chapter XIV. The Ogillallah Village
- Chapter XV. The Hunting Camp
- Chapter XVI. The Trappers
- Chapter XVII. The Black Hills
- Chapter XVIII. A Mountain Hunt
- Chapter XIX. Passage of the Mountains
- Chapter XX. The Lonely Journey
- Chapter XXI. The Pueblo and Bent's Fort
- Chapter XXII. Tete Rouge, the Volunteer
- Chapter XXIII. Indian Alarms
- Chapter XXIV. The Chase
- Chapter XXV. The Buffalo Camp
- Chapter XXVI. Down the Arkansas
- Chapter XXVII. The Settlements