Mistaken journey
as told to Ben East
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.
Read Time: ~4.3 hr
Seeing the elephant
by Joyce Badgley Hunsaker (2003)
About this book
Provides paintings, photographs, newspaper articles, and fictionalized diaries of real people who traveled the Oregon Trail throughout the nineteenth century.
Setting / LocationGlobal
Story EraModern Era
Protagonist / CoreSeeing the elephant Lead Character
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