{"product_id":"the-great-platte-river-road-merrill-j-mattes-9780803281530","title":"The Great Platte River Road","description":"\u003ci\u003eThe Great Platte River Road\u003c\/i\u003e through Nebraska and Wyoming was the grand corridor of America's westward expansion. A number of famous trails converged in the broad valley of the Platte, forming a kind of primitive superhighway for the great covered wagon migration from 1841 to 1866. From jumping-off places along the Missouri River--notably the Omaha-Council Bluffs, St. Joseph, and Kansas City areas--the emigrant throngs came together at Fort Kearny, Nebraska. Although they continued on to South Pass, Wyoming, and beyond, this book focuses on the feeder mutes and the more than three hundred miles between Fort Kearny and Fort Laramie. \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Great Platte River Road\u003c\/i\u003e looks at border towns, trail routes, river crossings, stage stations, military posts, and such landmarks as Chimney Rock and Scott's Bluff. It goes far beyond geography and Indian encounters in revealing cultural aspects of the great migration: food, dress, equipment, organization, camping, traffic patterns, sex ratios, morals, manners, religion, crime, accidents, disease, death, and burial customs.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Merrill J. Mattes\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0803281536\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780803281530\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Bison Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/01\/1987\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 600\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.94lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 5.99w x 1.46d","brand":"Merrill J. Mattes","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43994907279615,"sku":"9780803281530","price":29.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_9b83694a-12f5-4e66-af63-7b33b4caf6f2.jpg?v=1683332877","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-great-platte-river-road-merrill-j-mattes-9780803281530","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}