Excerpt from The Oregon Trail: Sketches of Prairie and Rocky-Mountain LifeShaw the narrative of The Oregon Trail, which appeared serially in The Knickerbocker Magazine in 1847; and in his darkness he devised the means of guiding his pencil along the pages that recorded The Conspiracy of Pontiac, the earliest volumes of his great history of the American forest.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.