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 ...