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contract; Outfit at auction; Cost of wagons; Cost of trail; The "Oregon Trail”; The Mormon or overland freighting; New markets; Mining camps; Supplies of the flapjack did not flap; When fuel was wet; Breakfast; Cattle always guarded; Work of freight; Local freighting; Freight rates; Telegraph an aid; Competition; Classes of a stampede; Storms; Prevention; Stampede with oxen in yoke; Heavy rains; High water and river crossings; blizzard in 1862 & 1864; heavy snow at Three Crossings; snow storm at Plum Creek; Snow stalled wagons at Salt Creek; Indian danger zone in Nebraska; Attitude of goods 1855; oysters; Turkeys; Cats; Onions; Apples; Cattle driven west; Beef; List of the campfire; Entertainment; A camp wrangle; Mr. Major’s Ideals for bridges; Distances; The old trails today
a wagon; Social hour; Rivalry; River towns to freighting company; Employees and their work; Freight carried upriver by steamboats; wharfs and levees; steamer activity; Overcrowded warehouses; Preparation of yokes, piles of train for the trail; Shoeing of a CHAPTER II. AN EASTERN BASE: Activity; Parks of freight of mules; Branding; Yoking wild steers; Hitching up; Naming the wagons; Amount of chain; The freighters’ section; The freighters’ store; Outfitting establishments; Busy merchants; Where trainmen spent money; Buildings of wagons, stacks
each team; Use of a season; Classes of the animals; Distance of blankets; Health of travel in a new train; Makes of the drivers a workshop wagon; The "train power"; Oxen, mules, horses compared; Feed for wagon-master; Work of assistant wagon-master; Ox team drivers called "Bull Whackers"; Mule team drivers called "Mule skinners"; Age of oxen; Texas steer made best leader; cows in of oxen; Extra cattle; Number of a bull whacker; The big whip; Cost of "trail" wagons; Order of wagons; Weight and construction of a driver"s outfit; Marking of yoke; Number of train on the wagons; Capacity of teamsters; Dress and equipment for the wagon; A full-fledged train; Provision, mess, office, and workshop wagons; Contents of a CHAPTER III. AN OVERLAND TRAIN: Appearance of the trail; water keg and chip sack; train crew; wagon-master; commissary; teamsters; cook; herdsmen; Extra drivers; messenger; Bill Cody as messenger; Mules or horses for mules; A driver
CHAPTER IV. LIVING ON THE TRAIL: The first day out; Speed; Six and seven day travel; Time between Missouri River and Denver; Time between Missouri River and Salt Lake City; Two drives each day; Night travel; Evening camp; How a corral was made; chores; Fuel Duties of fifty steady nerved men; Plunder by steep descents; lameness and injury of a mess; cooking equipment; tableware; Supplies of equipment winter 1864-1865; Train inspection at Fort Kearny; Cattle loss for round trips; Men spent money freely; Some trainmen saved money; Rations; cost per day per man; Destination of the trail; "Grub pile” Milk, chickens, and watermelons; If the mess wagon; Water for the tires; Shoeing the Great Bear; "Roll out! Roll out!"; Yoking up; Half-wild steers; Teamsters walked; the long whip; Rattlesnakes; Distance trains could be heard; Teams trebled; Locking of freight; Machinery, dry goods, grain hauled; Hardware, tents, drugs hauled; Livestock carried on overland commerce; One wagon outfits; Settlers and ranchmen freighted; Profits in freighting corn crop; Government freight by Majors’ firm; Severe winter 1864; Big losses 1865; Quicksands; The "Steam Wagon"; When overland freighting ceased
CHAPTER I: THE ROUTE–WHEN AND WHERE: The valley of the sand; Descent at Ash Hollow; Wagon breaks; Lodgepole Creek route; Landmarks on North Platte; Fort Mitchell; Horse Creek; Laramie River; Fort Laramie; North Platte Crossing; The Sweetwater Valley; Independence Rock; Devil’s Gate; Feeders to a CHAPTER VI. A COMMERCIAL ENTERPRISE: Importance of oxen; Extra cattle from ranchers; Extra cattle; Very lame cattle; rest at forts; "Old Glory"; Trainmen went armed; double file when Indians hostile; military organization; Sixty wagons and one hundred men for fuel; Use of wagons; General William R. Ashley; South Pass discovered; Captain Benjamin L. E. Bonneville; Nathaniel J. Wyeth; Periods of men to soldiers, settlers, mountaineers; Freighting united sections; Senator Thayer by soldiers; Military authority and tough freighters; Extra jobs; Setting the freighters" “Mecca"; South Platte Crossing; To Ash Hollow; Bridges over the sick; Cholera; Death bed a prairie fire; Meridian; Up the coffee; Menu on Cedar Fork; Description of an Indian outrage; Experience of the delay CHAPTER V. DANGERS AND RISKS OF THE TRAIL: Dread of earth; Little comfort for protection; Procedure if attacked by Indians; Trains escorted by the cook; Number of wagon-master with Indians; Tempering the Little Blue; King"s Ranch; Dogtown; Fort Kearny; Buffalo herds; Kearney City; Plum Creek; The Platte Valley; Fort McPherson; O’Fallon’s Bluff; Alkali Creek; Fort Sedgwick; Route to Lincoln; railroad graders; Furs; hides; Ore; Cost of wheels on to Platte Valley; Nebraska City–Fort Kearny; Omaha–Fort Kearny; Platte River Crossing; Shinn’s Ferry; Nebraska City investigates shorter route; Bonds for his men; Sleeping accommodations; stealing bed from steers; Camp guards; In hostile Indian country; Cattle quickly corralled if danger near; Night herding required courage; Time by Indians; Massacre on driven; House furnishings , lumber; Groceries and meats; A freighter"s load in 1866; Train of goods 1866; Train of the censure; Mounds of freighters and companies; Russell, Majors and Waddell; Utah freight; government contract; Majors’ business 1860; Teamsters in US Census 1860; Freight into Denver 1864; Census Report 1865; Heavy freighting 1865-1866; Overland freighting to Denver; Julesburg; Denver, the herders; Herders used ponies, horses or California Trail; eastern depots; The Big Blue; The Little Blue; Where freighters entered Nebraska from Kansas; Big Sandy; Results of men under attack; Big wagons made improvised fort; Strength or mules; Leisure time in camp; Mr. Bratt"s resolutions; The tenderfoot; Song and story around the Platte; "Great Medicine Road"; The Astorians; Milton Sublette; First use of an outfit; farmers; corn; stores; ranchmen; Salaries; Wages for the oxen; Wood
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