Name/Title
Oregon Trail, TheEntry/Object ID
L2019.13.140Description
Oregon Trail, The. A journal created by Francis Parkman during his journey on the Oregon Trail. c. 1846. On his journey he visited Michel Robidoux's trading post at Fort Laramie.
Hugh Lewis research notation:
Page 71: June 8th, 1846 in area of Fort Laramie. "As these emigrants were telling their story, we saw four other men approaching. They proved to be R --and his companions, who had encountered no mischance of any kind, but had only wandered too far in pursuit of the game. They said they had seen no Indians, but only "millions of buffalo;" and both R --and Sorel had meat dangling behind their saddles."
Page 80: On the banks of the Platte. "...Nestled close beneath them, we could discern in the distance something like a building. As we came nearer, it assumed form and dimensions, and proved to be a rough structure of logs. It was a little trading fort, belonging to two private traders; and originally intended, like all the forts of the country, to form a hollow square, with rooms for lodging and storage opening upon the area within. Only two sides of it had been completed; the place was as ill-fitted for the purposes of defence as any of those little log-houses which, upon our constantly-shifting frontier have been so often successfully held against overwhelming odds of Indians..."
Page 111: Blacksmith Robidoux. "I caught my horse, and to my vexation found that he had lost a shoe and broken his hoof against the rocks. Horses are shod at Fort Laramie at the moderate rate of three dollars a foot; so I tied Hendrick to a beam in the corral, and summoned Robidoux, the blacksmith. Robidoux, with the hoof between his knees, was at work with a hammer and file, and I was inspecting the process, when a strange voice addressed me."
326/Paperback/Brown/Photo of a wagon trainCollection
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Oregon Trail, Journals, Robidoux Family, Robidoux Trading Post, Fort LaramieBook Details
Author
Parkman, FrancisPlace Published
City
New York CityState/Province
New YorkDate Published
1922Call No.
Robidoux PAISBN
0-7607-5232-XNotes
Copy No.: 7Condition
Overall Condition
ExcellentRelationships
Related Person or Organization
Person or Organization
Parkman, FrancisPerson or Organization
Antoine Robidoux