Bibliograph

The Oregon Trail, Ralph Compton

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The Oregon Trail, Ralph Compton

Language

eng

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Literary text for sound recordings

fiction

Main title

The Oregon Trail

Medium

electronic resource

Responsibility statement

Ralph Compton

Series statement

Trail Drive, bk. 9

Summary

They Risked Their Lives To Bring Cattle to Missouri. Now They Faced A Journey Twics As Dangerous... The only riches Texans had left after the Civil War were five million maverick longhorns and the brains, brawn and boldness to drive them north to where the money was. Now, Ralph Compton brings this violent and magnificent time to life in an extraordinary epic series based on the history-making trail drives. The Oregon Trail... Lou Spencer, Dill Summer, and their fourteen Texas cowboys brought a herd up to Independence, Missouri, and sold half to a wagon train heading West. Then the Texans hired on, leading the battling greenhorn pioneers across the Missouri River, across Nebraska Territory, and into the wilds past Forts Laramie and Bridger. With winter closing in, Spencer's men were running out of time to reach the wide-open land of Oregon. And with a fortune in gold hidden in one of the pilgrims' wooden wagons-and outlaws circling like wolves-there were miles of shooting and dying still ahead

Target audience

adult

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not applicable

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