The Covered Wagon

by Emerson Hough

Overview

The Covered Wagon is one of the classic sagas of the American West, set in the days of the settlement of the far frontier in the Northwest. Gatherings of families join together in the spring west of the Mississippi to form long wagon trains heading across the Great Plains and over the Continental Divide to Oregon and a new life. They are beset by the hardships of nature, fear, starvation, and hostile Indians, and the suffer much, but their eventual success is one of the triumphs of our national history.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940000731116
Publisher:	B&R Samizdat Express
Publication date:	10/20/2012
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Sales rank:	482,804
File size:	595 KB

About the Author

About The Author
American author and lawyer Emerson Hough (1857-1923) was born in Iowa and wrote westerns including: Story of the Outlaw. Emerson Hough's books Include: Girl at the Halfway House(1900); The Mississippi Bubble (1902); Way to the West (1903) and Law of the Land (1905).