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Non-Fiction

left-of-center2012

(34,195 posts) Sun Feb 27, 2022, 01:09 PM Feb 2022

I'm looking for a book about travel on a wagon train [View all]

Has anyone read a good nonfiction book about what it was like living and traveling on a wagon train headed out west?

I read somewhere recently that wagon trains did not travel in single file with one wagon following the other.
The article said they traveled about five alongside each other.

That raised my interest in finding out what it was actually like on a wagon train.

Thanks

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I'm looking for a book about travel on a wagon train [View all] left-of-center2012 Feb 2022 OP

The Oregon Trail by Francis Parkman. Sneederbunk Feb 2022 #1

Thanks left-of-center2012 Feb 2022 #4

Did you try your local library? efhmc Mar 2022 #8

Wagons West by Frank McLynn. luvs2sing Feb 2022 #2

Thanks. But ... left-of-center2012 Feb 2022 #5

Readers Digest Condensed Version: ret5hd Feb 2022 #3

Remember what Roman emperor Silbannacus said left-of-center2012 Feb 2022 #6

Well, no I don't...got the RDCV available? ret5hd Feb 2022 #7

Silbannacus sayeth: "No one will ever remember what I said." Achilleaze Mar 2022 #10

Ohhh, I would LOVE to read a non-fiction book PoindexterOglethorpe Mar 2022 #9

Women's Diaries of the Westward Journey; Lillian Schlissel (Editor) intheflow Aug 2022 #11