Following Cherokee Tracks

I first saw the Cherokee Trail when I was a little girl. One branch of it crossed my family’s ranch near Encampment, Wyoming, and when we were at the reservoir either checking the irrigation headgates, having a picnic or fishing, my father pointed it out to me. At the time I was about five years old. Since 1990, I’ve traveled many Western emigrant trails, and yet the Cherokee, which runs practically through my own backyard, remained unexplored. When I finally decided to follow the trail,