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"His next major trip was to Bokhara. He left British territory in 1820, for a trip that would last until 1825. Due to civil unrest in Afghanistan, he decided to go via Ladakh and Chinese Turkistan. He waited in Leh for permission from Kashgar, during which time he traveled and explored the greater part of Ladakh, the Karakoram Pass, the head-waters of the Yarkand River, the Western Himalaya, the Karakoram and the NW Frontier. In 1824, after deciding that permission would never come , he decided to go via Afghanistan, regardless of the civil conflict there. Traveled through Kashmir and Punjab, over the Khyber Pass, across the Oxus, and got to Bokhara. He died during the return trip."<ref>Buxton, Bill [http://www.billbuxton.com/climbing.html#alder "Books on History and Exploration: Annotated Bibliography"]. Retrieved December 11th, 2009.</ref></blockquote>
[http://www.billbuxton.com/dramatis.html#moorcroft Elsewhere] on his site, Buxton gives a short, but fuller biography of Moorcroft, including a bibliography. On the India List a [http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/india/2004-09/1094087514 post] and [http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/india/2004-09/1094099484 thread] mention the EIC horse stud at Pusa where Moorcroft was posted. Refer [[Ordnance]]. [http://ls2content.tlcdelivers.com/content.html?&customerid=735&requesttype=text-chapter&button=false&isbn=1582430284&upc= Extract about William Morecroft "The Horse Doctor"] from the book ''Tournament of Shadows'' by Karl E. Meyer and Shareen Blair Brysac 1999. ls2content.tlcdelivers.com
Historical books available online include ''Travels in the Himalayan provinces of Hindustan and the Panjab, in Ladakh and Kashmir, in Peshawar, Kabul, Kunduz, and Bokhara from 1819 to 1825'' by William Moorcroft and George Trebeck [http://books.google.com/books?id=MncOAAAAQAAJ Volume 1], [http://books.google.com/books?id=AGk7bhhC_wwC Volume 2] (Google Books).
