The Prairie Traveler: A Hand-book for Overland Expeditions

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Fort Smith, Arkansas
FORT SMITH, ARKANSAS.
THE
PRAIRIE TRAVELER.
A HAND-BOOK FOR
OVERLAND EXPEDITIONS.
WITH MAPS, ILLUSTRATIONS, AND ITINERARIES OF
THE PRINCIPAL ROUTES BETWEEN THE
MISSISSIPPI AND THE PACIFIC.
By
RANDOLPH B. MARCY,
CAPTAIN U. S. ARMY.
PUBLISHED BY AUTHORITY OF THE WAR DEPARTMENT.

NEW YORK:
HARPER & BROTHERS, PUBLISHERS,
FRANKLIN SQUARE.
1859.
Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year
one thousand eight hundred and fifty-nine, by
HARPER & BROTHERS,
In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of
the Southern District of New York.
CONTENTS.
CHAPTER I.
Page 15
The different Routes to California and Oregon. Their
respective
Advantages.
Organization
of
Companies.
Elections of Captains. Wagons and Teams. Relative Merits
of Mules and Oxen. Stores and Provisions. How packed.
Desiccated
and
canned
Vegetables.
Pemmican.
Antiscorbutics.
Cold
Flour.
Substitutes
in
case
of
Necessity. Amount of Supplies. Clothing. Camp Equipage.
Arms.
CHAPTER II.
Page 44
Marching. Treatment of Animals. Water. Different methods
of finding and purifying it. Journadas. Methods of
crossing them. Advance and Rear Guards. Selection of Camp.
Sanitary Considerations. Dr. Jackson's Report. Picket
Guards. Stampedes. How to prevent them. Corraling Wagons.
CHAPTER III.

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