The Prairie Traveler - Randolph Marcy

The best-selling pioneer guidebook of its day! Filled with helpful information that was essential for safe travel West as well as a fascinating view of the strenuous life faced by travelers before the era of the railroad. The author, Captain Randolph Marcy was asked by the War Department to write this guidebook after the Donner Party met its fate using the Emigrants Guide to Oregon and California by Lansford Hastings (Applewood Books)