WAGON TRAIN

摘要

It was oddly appropriate that our migratory party of eight would suffer a wagon calamity on the California Trail. It's a fate that befell many of the Gold Rush pioneers and other westward travelers whose tracks we'd been following.Our quartet of modern, reliable transportation was slated to journey in five days what took our 19th century ancestors five months. Those early pioneers dealth with 50-inch wooden wheels, broken trails, and death by dehydration. We had winter tires, paved roads, and Egyptian cotton bedsheets. Still, we should have known better. Ghosts haunted our path.