Comments on: Wagon Trains, Historical Romance, and Emma

By: Kate Cambridge

Kate Cambridge — Wed, 22 Feb 2017 17:18:08 +0000

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By: Shaleah

Shaleah — Mon, 20 Feb 2017 03:46:39 +0000

#5 was surprising to me. Years with no map! I don’t go on a trip without planning ahead.

By: lori byrd

lori byrd — Sun, 19 Feb 2017 19:22:27 +0000

It’s hard to believe you can still see the wheel ruts. Incredible!

By: Rhi

Rhi — Sun, 19 Feb 2017 17:09:10 +0000

Those were all really interesting facts. I actually already knew about fact #4. (Do you remember the old video game, Oregon Trail, where dying of dysentery was so common?) I didn’t realize you could still see the wheel ruts though. That is really cool.

By: Kerri

Kerri — Sun, 19 Feb 2017 15:46:53 +0000

Thank you for all the hard work of research. Fact 3 was the most surprising. Now I’m going to look up what a Prairie schooner looks like.

By: Anne-Denise

Anne-Denise — Sat, 18 Feb 2017 18:37:34 +0000

I love this era so much I went to Oregon this past summer to visit Baker City’s interpretive centre. It was great. They have a lot of authentic stuff on display. As you walk the trail inside the is a commentary video playing from room to room based upon an actual settlers diary. They have wagons their to see as well. Also outside they have preserved actual wagon tracts. You may also like to go to the interpretive centre in Oregon city. It has a hands on room where you get to see what goes into the wagons. My wish is to go to Fort Laramie, Independence Rock and Chimney Rock. Major stops along the trail. It is amazing what the settlers went thru to get out west.

By: Joy F Gibson

Joy F Gibson — Sat, 18 Feb 2017 15:20:10 +0000

Interesting blog! Thanks for the giveaway chance!

By: Debra Guyette

Debra Guyette — Sat, 18 Feb 2017 12:33:16 +0000

Fact 2 and Fact 5 were unknown to me before. I knew about the ruts as we have some in town left over from the Puritans. I did think they followed the same trail. And I never thought about how they knew.

By: Debbie J

Debbie J — Sat, 18 Feb 2017 11:05:02 +0000

Hi Kate, I was surprised that the wagon wheel ruts were still there, and in the comments on that page, one of the women said the ruts were down into the limestone too! Oh my goodness, it took a special kind of person to endure all that the pioneers had to go thru. (My heart goes out to them, even though it is all in the past.)

By: mm

mm — Sat, 18 Feb 2017 10:28:39 +0000

#4 I knew there was sickness and hard to keep small things from going bad but I thought there was more Indian attacks.