On Trails

AUTHOR’S NOTE

AS WHITMAN once wrote, this book is intended as “an exploration, as of new ground, wherein, like other primitive surveyors, I must do the best I can, leaving it to those who come after me to do much better.” Everything in this book is, to the best of my knowledge, strictly factual. The order of the events, however, has been rearranged for clarity and narrative effect; the chapters, for example, do not flow in chronological order, nor do the sections. With any errors that you happen to encounter, please feel free to report them to robertmoor.ontrails@gmail.com, so that over time the book can continue to improve.