Days on the Road (eBook, ePUB) - Raymond Herndon, Sarah
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Days on the Road: Crossing the Plains in 1865 is Sarah Raymond Herndon’s famous journal of her family’s heartbreaking but inspiring trek across the Great Plains towards the Rocky Mountains in a wagon-train as the US Civil War is coming to an end. 24-year old Herndon’s colorful travelogue, written on the trail, is both an important historical document and a suspenseful, absorbing read.

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Days on the Road: Crossing the Plains in 1865 is Sarah Raymond Herndon’s famous journal of her family’s heartbreaking but inspiring trek across the Great Plains towards the Rocky Mountains in a wagon-train as the US Civil War is coming to an end. 24-year old Herndon’s colorful travelogue, written on the trail, is both an important historical document and a suspenseful, absorbing read.
Autorenporträt
Sarah Raymond Herndon left her home in Missouri in May 1865 and traveled west in the company of her mother, younger brothers, and fellow emigrants, finally arriving in Virginia City, Montana Territory, at the height of the Gold Rush boom in that rough frontier town. She spent the rest of her life in Montana, and published the story of her western journey in 1900. Mary Barmeyer O'Brien is the author of Heart of the Trail, Into the Western Winds, Toward the Setting Sun, and Bright Star in the Big Sky, a biography of Montana's Jeannette Rankin. She lives in Polson, Montana.