AND

ROCKY MOUNTAIN LIFE;

OR, THE

CALIFORNIA AND OREGON TRAIL,

"Let him who crawls enamor'd of decay,
Cling to his couch, and sicken years away;

Heave his thick breath, and shake his palsied head:
Ours-the fresh turf, and not the feverish bed."

BYRON.

BY FRANCIS PARKMAN, JR.

THIRD EDITION.

NEW YORK:

GEORGE P. PUTNAM, 155 BROADWAY