| Wagon Wheels: A Contemporary Journey on the Oregon Trail Contributor(s): Moulton, Candy (Author), Kern, Ben (Joint Author) |
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ISBN: 0931271363 ISBN-13: 9780931271366 Publisher: High Plains Press OUR PRICE: $13.46 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: June 1996 Annotation: When Horse-Drawn wagons retraced the Oregon Trail to commemorate the 150th anniversary of the Great Migration, Candy Moulton, as a correspondent for the Casper Star-Tribune, climbed into the lead wagon driven by Ben Kern. Moulton and Kern's Wagon Wheels is a unique book comparing the trail and the trip -- then and now. Read about the journey, the friendships, the landscape, the weather, the animals, and the politics of an overland crossing by wagon. Draw conclusions about which things have changed in 150 years and which seem to remain the same. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | United States - 19th Century - Travel | United States - West - General |
| Dewey: 917.804 |
| LCCN: 96017581 |
| Physical Information: 0.78" H x 5.55" W x 8.52" (0.87 lbs) 256 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Pacific Northwest - Cultural Region - Plains - Geographic Orientation - Idaho - Geographic Orientation - Kansas - Geographic Orientation - Nebraska - Geographic Orientation - Oregon - Geographic Orientation - Wyoming - Chronological Period - 19th Century |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Climb aboard Ben Kern's lead wagon and retrace the Oregon Trail with the 150th Anniversary Wagon Train. Experience the trail first-hand through the diaries of modern-day travelers Ben Kern, Candy Moulton, and Earl Leggett, plus gain insight from the historic diaries of pioneer emigrants. It's a trip you wont want to miss. Wagon Wheels follows Kern's wagon from campsite to campsite from Missouri to Oregonall the while presenting historic backgrounds through careful research and expansive quotations from historic journals. |