The book is often compared with Francis Parkman’s, The Oregon Trail: Sketches of Prairie and Rocky-Mountain Life.
It was originally serialized in twenty-one installments in Knickerbocker's Magazine (1847–49) and subsequently published as a book in 1849.
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In 1848, Lux married Henry Chatillon, who had become somewhat famous as the leader of the expedition of Francis Parkman in The Oregon Trail.