Content:
Notes and drafted lines of an unpublished poem, which Whitman had
tentatively titled "The
Trail." The lines were written while Whitman was reading
The Oregon Trail
by
Francis Parkman, for he has noted it at the top of the first page. The
title, written near the bottom of the first page, and "The Emigration to
California 1846
'7," on the third page, are written in red ink. The
relationship of this draft to Whitman's published work is unknown. All
versos are blank.
