Illustration on front cover of Captain Jack sitting outdoors, writing. Poem, 'Little Ones Praying at Home - A Song' is printed on the front cover.

Kansas territorial days by the wife of a politically active abolitionist, and governor of the "Free-State" of Kansas, Topeka government, which was disallowed by the United States in 1856. The book concerns the events around this Free State government, the battle in Lawrence, and Robinson's ousting and imprisonment. Robinson would later be nominated and win the official Territorial governorship in 1859.

The Oregon Trail is the gripping account of Francis Parkman's journey west across North America in 1846. After crossing the Allegheny Mountains by coach and continuing by boat and wagon to Westport, Missouri, he set out with three companions on a horseback journey that would ultimately take him over two thousand miles. Map.

A young man's account of his travels on the Oregon and California Trails in 1846, and of his sojourn with the Oglala Indians.