Pioneer Tales Of The Oregon Trail And Of Jefferson County.

CHARLES DAWSON

Publication: Crane & Company, 1912, Topeka

First edition. 8vo. Decorated cloth, xv [1], 488 pp., preface, frontis. [portrait], portraits, map, tables, index. Six Gun 570 says, "This book is one of the first in which the author tried to publish a correct account of the Hickok-McCanles trouble and to show "the wide variance between the truth and fiction as told by Emerson Hough." He was also the first to claim that Wild Bill shot McCanles from behind a curtain and ambushed Woods and Gordon from an unseen shelter." Much on the Pony Express, Mormons, Indians, the overland trail, Indians, the Oregon Cutoff, and much more. Eberstadt says "The author was personally acquainted with many of the old pioneers and has here gathered together their reminiscences and authentic accounts of the early overland. He gives the early history of the Oregon Trail; the Gold Rush; reminiscences of Frank Helvery; Pease's Diary from Missouri to Oregon, etc." Light wear to the spine ends and corners else a solid very good copy.

Inventory Number: 52983