Summary: This book recounts several aspects of the trail west. Included are several struggles that emigrants faced on the trail. This book highlights some of the hardships that were faced by everyone involved including death, illness, physical strain, hunger, thirst and diminishing hope. This book seemed to recap the worst from the trail, but also gave some other interesting details as well.

Personal Reaction: I loved this book. I’ve never really been interested in the trail west, but this book was very interesting. There were several things that I learned that I didn’t know before. It made reading the book much more enjoyable.

Classroom extension:
1) This book includes a trail treat recipe...Gingerbread! This would definitely be a must for any classroom.
2) This book would also be great for teaching the trail west in much deeper detail.