Bound for Montana.Bound For Montana Susan Badger badger, name for several related members of the weasel family. Most badgers are large, nocturnal, burrowing animals, with broad, heavy bodies, long snouts, large, sharp claws, and long, grizzled fur. Doyle MontanaHistorical Society Press PO Box 201201, Helena, MT 59620-1201 0917298985 $19.95 1-800-243-9900 www.montanahistoricalsociety.org In Bound For Montana: Diaries From The Bozeman Trail Bozeman Trail: see under Bozeman, John M. , western historian Susan Badger Doyle has compiled and annotated diaries and journals kept by men and women who traveled through the American west on the Bozeman Trail. The Bozeman Trail was a route from the Platte River Platte River River, central Nebraska, U.S. Formed by the confluence of the North Platte and South Platte rivers, it is 310 mi (500 km) long. It flows southeast into a big bend at Kearney, Neb., then empties into the Missouri River at Plattsmouth, south of Omaha. Road to the goldfields n. 1. A small slender woolly annual (Lasthenia chrysostoma) with very narrow opposite leaves and branches bearing solitary golden-yellow flower heads; it grows from Southwestern Oregon to Baja California and Arizona; - it is often cultivated. of Montana; its experience through the eyes of seven different people, ranging from a new bride traveling with her husband to a prospector in search of wealth to a Civil War veteran, is all recounted in the travellers' own words. A fascinating primary source, as useful for historians and period piece writers as it is entertaining to lay readers. |
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