Very nice vintage paperback Pocket Book, 1960, 280 pages Set at the time of the opening of the American West, The Covered Wagon tells the story of two men who fought the Great Plains and each other, and of a girl who conquered all danger except that of her passion. These three people are part of a vast historic pageant— the progress of the covered-wagon trains as they fought their way from the banks of the Missouri to the valleys of the new Oregon Territory. They battled dry wastelands and roaring rivers, greed for gold and the attacks of hostile Indians.