“Should any of my readers ever be impelled to visit the prairies…I can assure him that he need not think to enter at once upon the paradise of his imagination,” stated Francis Parkman, an 1846 Oregon Trail pioneer, in his 1872 book, The Oregon Trail.
When pioneers made the life-changing decision to head west, they did so with excitement and trepidation. Those who first blazed the trails had no idea of what to expect. Over time, prospective emigrants could learn from the letters pionee
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