Oregon Trail
being sketches of prairie and Rocky Mountain life
by Francis Parkman · first published 1800
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Also recommend Francis Parkman's, "Oregon Trail", such a life of adventure combined with the ability to turn out sublime prose. A better record of the time than any video footage could ever have achieved.
on “Ken Burns chronicles the sad fate of the American buffalo” ↗…(literally "the junction") is east of Salida Colorado where the Arkansas River provides an exit ("salida" in Spanish) from the Rocky Mountains. It's the route Francis Parkman used and describes in his book The Oregon Trail...he never got very close to Oregon. The opium might have had something to do with that. The southernmost route traverses the mountains of the Basin and Range physiographic region.
on “Amtrak's 2035 map has people talking about the future of U.S. train travel” ↗