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Title: Crossing the Plains, Days of '57
A Narrative of Early Emigrant Tavel to California by the Ox-team Method

Author: William Audley Maxwell

Release Date: October 9, 2008 [EBook #26858]

Language: English

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CROSSING THE PLAINS

DAYS OF '57

A NARRATIVE OF EARLY EMIGRANT TRAVEL
TO CALIFORNIA BY THE
OX-TEAM METHOD

BY

WM. AUDLEY MAXWELL

COPYRIGHT, 1915, BY
WM AUDLEY MAXWELL

SUNSET PUBLISHING HOUSE
SAN FRANCISCO MCMXV

[Illustration: "They started flight" (See page 119.)]

CONTENTS

PAGE

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS VI

FOREWORD VII

CHAPTER I. Forsaking the Old, in Quest of the New. First
Camp. Fording the Platte 1

CHAPTER II. Laramie Fashions and Sioux Etiquette. A Trophy.
Chimney Rock. A Solitary Emigrant. Jests and Jingles 13

CHAPTER III. Lost in the Black Hills. Devil's Gate. Why a
Mountain Sheep Did Not Wink. Green River Ferry 31

CHAPTER IV. Disquieting Rumors of Redmen. Consolidation for
Safety. The Poisonous Humboldt 49

CHAPTER V. The Holloway Massacre 62

CHAPTER VI. Origin of "Piker." Befor