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 ...

“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 ...

Part of the trail follows the 1870 Central Oregon Wagon Road. That route had first ... the rescuers made many trips, bringing horses loaded with flour. A 17-year-old girl from the wagon train ...

Today, the abandoned roadway offers some of Oregon’s most unique mountain ... and this much for cow and this much per horse and this much for wagon. And that was a pretty industrious way to ...