They knew the trip would be difficult, but they didn't bargain on hell.
The shout giddap starts the oxen down a path to the end of the world.
For five months, and two thousand miles, the wagon train lumbers toward California on the Oregon Trail and into big trouble.
The emigrants endure disease, dirt, and attacks from outlaws, and invaded Indians.
Bitter strife erupts between ill-matched pioneers forced together by necessity.
The 1845 wagon train is part of a vast westward movem.
Lost River Books Days of hope, miles of misery: love and loss on the oregon trail, hardcover/fred dickey
