Wake of the Prairie Schooner describes the authors retracing of the Oregon Trail in the early 1940's . Chapter 5 details the Road from Old St. Joe. The text includes the author's interpretation of old documents and her examination of surviving vestiges left by the wayfarers along the trail. Covered are an Indian massacre, buffalo stampede, a flood, breakdown, and sand storm. Paden juxaposes her modern day impressions with the pioneer experience.
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