William Fairholme: Journal of an Expedition to the Grand Prairies of the Missouri, 1840

by Jack B. Tykal

Book Overview

An original journal of adventure in the far west is here published for the first time. Lt. William Fairholme of the British light infantry recorded a most unique and vivid account of the Far West in the year prior to the first great overland migration to the Pacific Slope in 1841.

Young Fairholme's journal (he celebrated his twenty-first birthday shortly after setting out) sweeps from the grim, as in his reporting of the prairie fire that...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0870622609
• ISBN13: 9780870622601
• Release Date: June 1998
• Publisher: Arthur H. Clark Company
• Length: 196 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 7.9" x 9.6"