DAYVILLE -- With wagons parked for the night and horses and mules turned out to pasture, the 12 people on the Oregon Statehood Wagon Train walked across the empty two-lane road toward supper.

Ben Scileppi isn't old enough to drive a car yet, but he has learned the more subtle art of driving a wagon hitched to a team of four draft horses. Ben and his older sister Sarah Scileppi are part ...

GRAND FORKS, N.D. — As a matched pair of handsome, massive black horses hitched to a wagon rounded the bend in the snow-covered park, children heralded their arrival. “They’re coming!

“In fact, horse and wagon travel was very dangerous ... Still, his adventure on the Oregon Trail wasn’t all mortality and mayhem. There was joy, much joy. “Here’s what it looks like ...