Published by [Dowdle Press], 1904
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Original blue cloth boards with gilt stamped pictorial on front cover. A couple spots of light soiling on front cover; rubbing to corners and spine ends. Interior is clean and unmarked. Light abrasion to upper corner of flyleaf. Frontispiece portrait of Edward Henry Lenox and fourteen full-page illustrations. Illustrations by R. Morgenier.pp. ix, 69. Placed in an archival mylar sleeve. Scarce. Firsthand account of the 1843 Oregon Trail wagon train captained by David Thomas Lenox, as written by his son Edward Henry Lenox, who was sixteen at the time of the journey. The wagon train, which had hired Dr. Marcus Whitman as a guide, included the likes of Jesse Applegate, Asa Lovejoy, and Daniel Waldo. The journey began on April 9 when the Lenox family left their home in Platte City, Missouri, and concluded on November 26 in Oregon City. Includes an appendix with lists of the names of the men and women in the emigration party.