What is your opinion of Stuart Lake’s Wyatt Earp biography Frontier Marshal? Josh Taylor Austin, Texas Much of Lake’s book comes from the fertile...
Wyatt Earp, Wagons and Wild Women
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Wagons West
Before taking the long journey West by wagon train what would it cost and what essential supplies would they need? The overland journey from...
On the Road to Seattle
A wagon train faced a long and arduous trip. It was mid-April 1851 when a wagon train left Illinois, headed for the Northwest region. Led by Arthur...
Circle the Wagons!
Emanuel Leutze’s 1863 oil Indians Attacking a Wagon Train vividly captured and perpetuated the fears of Americans migrating West on the Overland...
Wagons That Won The West: Conestoga Wagons The Conestoga wagon was large, heavy and built to haul loads up to six tons.
Conestoga Wagons The Conestoga wagon was large, heavy and built to haul loads up to six tons. Built by the Pennsylvania Dutch along the Conestoga...
The Donner Party Disaster The tragedy that befell the Donner Party in 1846 outranks them all ...
I don't know if anyone recorded the number of dishonest wagon masters, but in the hundreds of wagon trains heading to Oregon or California there...
How long would it have taken a wagon train to go from Mississippi to California in the 1800s?
How long would it have taken a wagon train to go from Mississippi to California in the 1800s? Bobby & Myra Echols Cumming, Georgia The roughly...
The Adventures of a Wagon Train
Robert Fuller was the perfect TV cowboy. He loved to ride, loved acting, he had the looks and, as the child of professional dancers, he had the...