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Trails of Yesterday - by John Bratt (Paperback)

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  • Trails of Yesterday, first published in 1921, is ranked with the best firsthand accounts of ranching on the northern Great Plains in the 1870s and 1880s.
  • About the Author: Winner of the Golden Spur Award of the Western Writers of America, Nellie Snyder Yost wrote No Time on My Hands with Grace Snyder (also a Bison Book).
  • 320 Pages
  • History, United States

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About the Book



Reprint of the first ed. published by the University Pub. Co., Chicago.



Book Synopsis



Trails of Yesterday, first published in 1921, is ranked with the best firsthand accounts of ranching on the northern Great Plains in the 1870s and 1880s. This classic of cow-country literature is rich in authentic frontier history.

Born in England in 1842, John Bratt came to America when he was twenty-two, and in 1866 he joined a wagon train traveling from Nebraska City to Fort Phil Kearny. Bratt gives a vivid view of the country along the Great Platte River Road, reporting on the condition of the trail, meetings with Indians such as Dull Knife, and encounters with buffalo herds. There are splendid descriptions of the few forts then protecting the long trail--Forts Kearny, McPherson, Mitchell, and Sedgwick--and of the road ranches of John Burke and the notorious Jack Morrow, among others. Bratt was a cattle rancher for more than two decades and was instrumental in the settlement of North Platte, Nebraska.



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"An overlooked rangeland classic. . . . At times Bratt's career becomes so adventurous that it seems exaggerated, but his straightforward narrative is convincing. The book is well written and good reading."--Don Russell, "Westerners Brand Books".


" An overlooked rangeland classic. . . . At times Bratt' s career becomes so adventurous that it seems exaggerated, but his straightforward narrative is convincing. The book is well written and good reading." -- Don Russell, "Westerners Brand Books,"


"An overlooked rangeland classic. . . . At times Bratt's career becomes so adventurous that it seems exaggerated, but his straightforward narrative is convincing. The book is well written and good reading."-Don Russell, "Westerners Brand Books,"



About the Author



Winner of the Golden Spur Award of the Western Writers of America, Nellie Snyder Yost wrote No Time on My Hands with Grace Snyder (also a Bison Book).
Dimensions (Overall): 7.94 Inches (H) x 5.32 Inches (W) x .78 Inches (D)
Weight: .79 Pounds
Suggested Age: 22 Years and Up
Number of Pages: 320
Genre: History
Sub-Genre: United States
Publisher: Bison Books
Theme: 19th Century
Format: Paperback
Author: John Bratt
Language: English
Street Date: June 1, 1996
TCIN: 88970236
UPC: 9780803260559
Item Number (DPCI): 247-52-5945
Origin: Made in the USA or Imported
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Estimated ship dimensions: 0.78 inches length x 5.32 inches width x 7.94 inches height
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