![]() ![]() This information is so varied, and is derived from so many different sources, that I still find every new expedition adds substantially to my practical knowledge, and am satisfied that a good Prairie Manual will be for the young traveler an addition to his equipment of inappreciable value. Their Habits, and Hints upon the best Methods of hunting them.Ī quarter of a century's experience in frontier life, a great portion of which has been occupied in exploring the interior of our continent, and in long marches where I have been thrown exclusively upon my own resources, far beyond the bounds of the populated districts, and where the traveler must vary his expedients to surmount the numerous obstacles which the nature of the country continually reproduces, has shown me under what great disadvantages the " voyageur" labors for want of a timely initiation into those minor details of prairie-craft, which, however apparently unimportant in the abstract, are sure, upon the plains, to turn the balance of success for or against an enterprise. Similarity of Prairie Tribes to the Arabs. Different methods of finding and purifying it. The different Routes to California and Oregon. In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of One thousand eight hundred and fifty-nine, by ![]() PUBLISHED BY AUTHORITY OF THE WAR DEPARTMENT.Įntered, according to Act of Congress, in the year WITH MAPS, ILLUSTRATIONS, AND ITINERARIES OF Dialect spellings, contractions and discrepancies have been retained. Minor typographical errors have been corrected without note. ![]()
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