Seeing the elephant
Joyce Badgley Hunsaker
Provides paintings, photographs, newspaper articles, and fictionalized diaries of real people who traveled the Oregon Trail throughout the nineteenth century.
Read Time: ~0.8 hr
Mistaken journey
by as told to Ben East (1979)
About this book
A rancher, his family, and two companions journey through 300 miles of rough, unsettled country to the land the family will homestead in Canada only to realize they have been trekking in the wrong direction.
Setting / LocationGlobal
Story EraModern Era
Protagonist / CoreMistaken journey Lead Character
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