The Pioneer Trail

The Pioneer Trail

Some years ago the author of this book was enabled to gratify an ambition to record in artistic form something of the scenes and something of the incidents of the memorable pilgrimage, The Westward March, from the once borders of civilization to the Great American DesertAn Old Sketch Book, Boston. S.E. Cassino, 1892. His purpose was not to publish a guide-book to the plains and mountains, for which there has been no occasion within the present generation, but rather a summary, a poetic-prose narrative of a typical journey, as seen through the memory and devoid of commonplaces, the more salient features only looming through the past. When the Jubilee Celebration of the strange [Pg 12] journeyfor it is that, and those who made it that we are this year honoring and commemoratingwas decided upon, it was suggested in consideration of the singular fitness of An Old Sketch-Book as a souvenir to be presented during the Jubilee to the Pioneers yet living, that letters were addressed to the Pioneer Jubilee Celebration Commission that speak for themselves. Many of the names appended to the letters were recognized as belonging to the honored band of Pioneer men and women, while the others were of those who think that in this Jubilee Year those who crossed the plains and mountains in ox-teams would appreciate the receiving, and their descendants the giving of a work of this character. An Old Sketch-Book, however, was a large and costly volume of a limited edition, and hardly manageable for the present purpose. The author therefore decided to place the sketches and descriptive matter in the form now used, under the title of The Old Journey. The prompting to undertake the work was not merely [Pg 13] encouraging but was made almost a duty by the commendations of the original volume, and had there been no other result from his labors, the author would have felt fully repaid for them by the expressions of approbation from the press as well as from those who saw the birth of the State and who watched its growth to the present hour. ......Buy Now (To Read More)

Product details

Ebook Number: 44987
Author: Lambourne, Alfred
Release Date: Feb 23, 2014
Format: eBook
Language: English