KINDRED, N.D. - Residents from across North Dakota took a 16-mile journey back in time Friday to honor Walcott and remember their ancestors. A caravan of 15 covered wagons and 30 riders on horseback ...
Belmont County, Ohio — The Belmont County wagon train set out this weekend, offering riders a chance to relive the pioneer style of travel with horse-drawn carriages. For upwards of thirty years, the ...
For 19th-century migrants traveling west across America by wagon train, every mile tested body and spirit. Blistered feet, choking dust and swarming insects posed just a few of the many physical ...
Disappearing rest stops and a decreased number of participants are not enough deterrents to stop a group of determined westward-bound pseudo pioneers. They like the view found between a pair of ...
ST. PAUL — It might not compare to the hardships pioneers in the mid-1800s encountered, but LeRoy and Donna Thoreson’s journey with the Minnesota Sesquicentennial Wagon Train wasn’t without its ...
Drivers often stop to wave at the traveling eight-up wagons along U.S. Highway 50 each year. The contrast between past and present amuses photographer Ron Harris, 70, who captures the train traveling ...
ST. PAUL — It might not compare to the hardships pioneers in the mid-1800s encountered, but LeRoy and Donna Thoreson’s journey with the Minnesota Sesquicentennial Wagon Train wasn’t without its ...