For 19th-century migrants traveling west across America by wagon train, every mile tested body and spirit. Blistered feet, choking dust and swarming insects posed just a few of the many physical ...
The young schoolteacher, dressed in calicos and layers of ruffled petticoats, held the hands of her second graders as they ...
“Rain, shine, sleet or snow. We rode... Sometimes we didn’t bathe for three or four days... unless you found you a good creek ...
Watt & Shand department store on Penn Square had a sale on men’s summer leisure suits, pricing them from $48 to $64.
Daughter of wagonmaster, grandchildren of wagon maker recount the Bicentennial Wagon Train’s Arkansas stories.
A young James Martin beside images of the wagon train and other things that remind him of the bicentennial. Credit: Photo illustration by Shawn Tripoli In the summer of 1976, the U.S. Bicentennial was ...
Manifest destiny -- Reasons why -- To boldly go -- Woman in the sunbonnet -- Great migration -- Through flood and famine -- Never take no cutoffs -- California catches up -- Tragedy in the snows -- ...
The sound of hoofbeats and the turning of wooden wheels, the sight of rancher hats, pioneer dresses, and covered wagons are all unusual in this modern age. But for the Wagon Train, they trace a ...
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