"North platte river" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... reached the Raw-hide about fifteen miles from North Platte river in Lormey Co. I caught a monstrous grey wolf in a trap. I knew the virtue of the trap it was a New-House noumber four. I was armed with a 49-90 winchester but refrained from shooting him because ...
— Black Beaver - The Trapper • James Campbell Lewis
... left Independence Rock. Our noon stop was on Fish Creek, eleven miles away. The next night we camped on the North Platte River. Fifty-four years before, I had left the old stream about fifteen miles below here on my way to ...
— Ox-Team Days on the Oregon Trail • Ezra Meeker |
