Kate Mulhall: A Romance of the Oregon Trail by Ezra Meeker

Description

Ezra Meeker crossed the plains himself as a young pioneer, and no one knew the Oregon Trail better — or fought harder, late in life, to preserve it. Kate Mulhall is his tribute to the emigrant road and its women: at twenty, Kate leaves her Missouri home, where every third inhabitant is a slave and no railroad has yet been seen, for the far Oregon country beyond the Rockies. The trail takes everything it ever can — buffalo stamps, Indian troubles, the dangerous river crossings, and the death of women beside the road — and Kate survives it, with suitors enough to make the journey a romance as much as an ordeal.

Meeker writes plainly of the frontier he knew: the long trains, the graves, the camps, and the stubborn rebuilding of life beyond the mountains. His Kate is a woman of the trail rather than the drawing-room — capable, quietly resolute, and worth more than a wagon-load of the period’s heroines.

Why readers still come back to it

• An Oregon Trail romance written by a man who actually crossed it
• Authentic detail of the emigrant road from the 1850s
• A strong, capable heroine who earns her happy ending

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