Trails of YesterdayTrails of Yesterday, first published in 1921, is ranked with the best firsthand accounts of ranching on the northern Great Plains in the 1870s and 1880s. This classic of cow country literature is rich in authentic frontier history. Born in England in 1842, John Bratt came to America when he was twenty two, and in 1866 he joined a wagon train traveling from Nebraska City to Fort Phil Kearny. Bratt gives a vivid view of the country along the Great