"The target audience for this book is middle and high school students. However, its information will appeals to a far broader audience. . . . .A useful introduction to trail travel and associated incidents." Journal of the West" A] little gem of a book." Overland JournalTheirs has been called America's single largest voluntary, historical migration. From the late 1830's to the mid-1870's a span of just over forty years nearly half a million ordinary folk left farms and families, friends, and all that was familiar and turned their faces west to Oregon, to California, to the valley of the Great...