How to See the British Museum in Four Visits

Sarah Raymond Herndon''s legendary account of her evocative journey through a land lost to time.Documenting the true experience of life on the plains Days on the Road remains one of the most authentic descriptions of the frontier experience and the famed Oregon Trail.Herndon and her family travelled from Missouri at the end of the Civil War in a bid to leave the violence behind and start anew in Montana. Between them and their destination lay hundreds of miles of harsh conditions from the endless Great Plains to the inhospitable Rocky Mountains.In a modest but immersive style Herndon evokes the monumental journey in this classic travel memoir.