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The Prairie Traveler
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The Prairie Traveler
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The Prairie Traveler
This was the indispensable handbook for American pioneers traveling west in the mid 19th century. Commissioned and published by the U.S. government and written in a straightforward and helpful voice by U.S. Army officer Randolph Barnes Marcy (1812-1887), it offers all the useful and necessary advice overland travelers to the far West needed to ensure a safe journey: . the different routes to California and Oregon . how to pack a wagon for the journey . finding and purifying water . repairing broken wagons . weathering storms . how to handle saddle wounds . the best way to make a fire on the prairie . interacting with Indians . hints on the best methods of hunting . and much more. Complete with all the original maps and illustrations, this replica edition is a remarkable artifact of one of the most exciting and dangerous eras in American history.
The Prairie Traveler
Randolph Marcy wrote this guide for fellow travelers wanting to brave the wilderness of North America, at a time when the western reaches of the continent were barely settled. A captain in the U.S. military, Marcy wrote this guide partly to allay the many myths and fears of the Western frontier, and partly to offer guidance to the dangers which were actually manifest. The information within takes readers across two popular trails - northerly, ending in Oregon, and southerly, ending in Santa Fe. Written in 1859, this book is both a guidebook and an authentic history of the Wild West era. Various anecdotes are interspersed through the text - Marcy is careful to differentiate between friendly Indian tribes such as the Delawares and Shawnees, whom he admires. The Plains Indians however are considered to have hostile tendencies; Marcy instructs on how to sign, and gives a detailed account of how to safely sleep with a gun cocked and loaded.
The Prairie Traveller, a Hand-book for Overland Expeditions
This book was published at the time of the great western trek across America of the early pioneers. It was essentially the only real handbook available to help those people to deal with the problems they encountered on their travels, besides also giving them maps.
The Prairie Traveler
"The Prairie Traveler" from Randolph Barnes Marcy. Career officer in the United States Army (1812-1887).
Thirty Years of Army Life on the Border
In this vivid and engaging memoir, Randolph Barnes Marcy documents his experiences as a U.S. Army officer charged with maintaining order on the western frontier during the mid-19th century. Marcy's accounts of encounters with Native American tribes, life on military posts, and the challenges of administering justice on the frontier shed light on a little-known chapter of American history. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Thirty Years of Army Life on the Border
General Randolph B Marcy's 1859 book, "The Prairie Traveler" is considered one of the most important guides that made possible the great Western overland migration of United States settlers in the last half of the 19th century.This later book, "Thirty Years of Army Life" is full of Marcy's keen observations of Indian life, hunting, and living in the unsettled western U.S. He knew a great deal about all of these from his many years in the west and from having led a troops of soldiers across the Rocky Mountains in the dead of winter without any loss of life, despite having run out of food during the last two weeks of the trip.Friend and father-in-law to controversial American Civil War general, George B. McClellan, Marcy served under that commander in the war.It's remarkable to us today that early white visitors to the west, despite their difficult circumstances, took time to observe the world around them in great detail. We owe a lot to accounts like that of General Marcy.
The Emigrant's Guide to Oregon and California
Published in 1845, this guidebook for pioneers is a reproduction of one of the most collectible books about California and the Western movement. It was the guidebook used by the Donner Party on their fateful journey. In addition, because Hastings' shortcut route through the Rockies produced such tragedy, the War Department commissioned The Prairie Traveler.
