“I have not wrote you half the trouble we have had but I have wrote enough to let you know you don’t know what trouble is.” With these...

In 1846, Independence, Missouri was a westernmost city of the United States, as well as the crossroads for the Santa Fe and Oregon...

1800s photo of a Caw boatman poling a raft that carried pioneer wagons across the Kansas River. After following Virginia Reed’s route via...

Once on the other side of the Kansas River, the Donner and Reed families joined up with the much larger Russell Company, which was made...