The "Oregon Trail" is the title under which this book first appeared. It was afterwards changed by the publisher, and is now restored to the form in which it originally stood in the Knickerbocker Magazine. As the early editions were printed in my absence, I did not correct the proofs, a process doubly necessary, since the book was written from dictation. The necessary corrections have been made in the present edition.
- As of May 2018, the Wikisource transcription of this book is largely from an earlier edition; efforts to align the text with the Fourth Edition are page-by-page, and are ongoing. (Wikisource contributor note)
