Автор: Herbert M. Hart
Название: Old Forts of the Northwest
Издательство: Superior Publishing Company
Год: 1963
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 200
Язык: English
Размер: 56 MB

Beyond the wide Missouri lay the prairie—"the biggest clearing on the Ahiiighty's footstool." And every few hundred miles, holding to the rivers and wooded bottoms, were the outposts of the white civilization—the military forts of the U.S. Army. Father, mother and comforter to the settlers, trading points for the trappers and buffalo hunters, rallying points for the scouts.