An illustration titled ”Wrecked in the Rapids,” showing an Oregon Trail emigrant party coming to grief in the Cascades, from Frances Fuller Victor’s book Eleven Years in the Rocky Mountains. PHOTO PROVIDED/COLUMBIAN BOOK CO.
The opening scene of The Warlord of Mars, Edgar Rice Burroughs’ third ”John Carter of Mars” book, has the hero paddling up the great River Iss as it flows out of a long, dark underground passage, in hot pursuit of a…
