Hastings was not at Fort Bridger at the time-he was leading an earlier wagon train along his new route.
the largest city in Missouri; was an important staging area for wagon trains westward in the 19th century.
He talked most of them around and kept the wagon train moving.
Their northern neighbours like to remind visitors of the famous fork (somewhere in today's Idaho) in the Oregon Trail that led the wagon trains to the Pacific coast.
Suffering was terrible. An officer who led the wagon train said he learned more about the horrors of war on that one trip than he had learned in all of his battles.
Professor Luria is an authentic pioneer of molecular biology. Even before the first wagon train set out he ventured as a mountain man among bacterial viruses.
150 years ago, wagon trains left from Lanham, Nebraska, bound for Oregon and California.
Their journeys by wagon train are fraught with danger, across distances never imagined possible.
Ever since Franklin Roosevelt lifted himself from his wheelchair to lift this nation from its knees, wagon train after wagon train. To new frontiers of education, housing, peace.
