A Modern-Day Explorer's Guide to the Old West-

From the famed Oregon Trail to the boardwalks of Dodge City to the Great trading posts on the Missouri River to the battlefields of the nineteenth-century Indian Wars, there are places all over the American West where visitors can relive the great Western migration that helped shape our history and culture.  This guide to the Great Plains states of Oklahoma, Kansas, Nebraska, and the Dakotas - one of the five-volume Finding the Wild West Series - highlights the best-preserved historic sites as well as ghost towns, reconstructions, museums, historical markers, notable graves, statues, and works of public art that tell the story of the Old West.