KINDRED, N.D. - Residents from across North Dakota took a 16-mile journey back in time Friday to honor Walcott and remember their ancestors. A caravan of 15 covered wagons and 30 riders on horseback ...
Belmont County, Ohio — The Belmont County wagon train set out this weekend, offering riders a chance to relive the pioneer style of travel with horse-drawn carriages. For upwards of thirty years, the ...
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 ...
ST. PAUL — It might not compare to the hardships pioneers in the mid-1800s encountered, but LeRoy and Donna Thoreson’s journey with the Minnesota Sesquicentennial Wagon Train wasn’t without its ...
Drivers often stop to wave at the traveling eight-up wagons along U.S. Highway 50 each year. The contrast between past and present amuses photographer Ron Harris, 70, who captures the train traveling ...
Between 1840 and 1860, 300,000 to 400,000 Americans moved west on covered wagons for 2,100 miles across the Oregon and California trails. In those two decades they transformed our nation and endured ...
SCOTTSBLUFF, NE ‒ Johnny and Vicki Blevins stepped out of their pickup and gazed down at the thin ribbon of the old Oregon Trail below them. Over the course of several decades, beginning in the ...
CLACKAMAS COUNTY, Ore. — On a clear day, the drive up to Mount Hood rarely disappoints. Before Highway 26, covered wagons made the trip over much more rugged terrain on the last overland section of ...
ST. PAUL — It might not compare to the hardships pioneers in the mid-1800s encountered, but LeRoy and Donna Thoreson’s journey with the Minnesota Sesquicentennial Wagon Train wasn’t without its ...
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