Across the Rockies to the Columbia

By John Kirk Townsend

Book Overview

""Narrative Of A Journey Across The Rocky Mountains, To The Columbia River"" is a travelogue written by John Kirk Townsend in 1839. The book chronicles his journey across the Rocky Mountains to the... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0803294018
• ISBN13: 9780803294011
• Release Date: January 1978
• Publisher: Univ of Nebraska Pr
• Length: 259 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 5.3" x 8.0"

Customer Reviews

Indicative of 1830's American West

Townsend's journal of traveling across the plains and mountains to the Pacific in 1834 is not only an enjoyable read depicting life as such, but also an important historical narrative on names and events of the day. An accomplished ornithologist, Townsend accompanied Nathaniel Wyeth and his seventy-man caravan of goods to the 1834 rendezvous and eventually established Ft. Hall in Idaho. Also in this expedition was the famous botanist Thomas Nuttall. The author is very descriptive and expressive of everything around him from geography; the natural world; Indian encounters, along with their living conditions and cultures, to the livelihood of being on the trail and surviving day to day. He is meticulous and energetic in his writing. An adventurous read and valuable to western history.