The Prairie Traveler: A Hand-book of Overland Expeditions, with Maps, Illustrations, and Itineraries of the Principal Routes between the Mississippi and the Pacific [Handbook]

xiii, 340, [2] pp. 8vo. Maps on endpapers. 1965 reissue of the 1859 original, which provided "detailed instructions and suggestions on kinds, makes and sources of foodstuffs needed; on medicines, equipment, animals, tenting gear, tools" for "westward-bound wagon trains and travellers."