Quilts of the Oregon Trail Painting and horticulture

and horticulture

[AuthorName]By Ron McDonald[/AuthorName][AuthorBio]Ron McDonald is a pastoral counselor

are included

[AuthorName]Randy & Sharon Littlefield[/AuthorName][AuthorBio]Randy Littlefield and his wife

[AuthorName]By Tina Skinner and Doug Bannister[/AuthorName][AuthorBio]Tina Skinner is a professional author and award-winning editor and journalist

Quilts of the Oregon Trail Painting and horticultureQuilts they left behind help us understand the thousands of women of the 1800s who traveled the Oregon Trail to reach the Pacific Northwest. Enjoy a close look at 56 quilts that, as documents of history, reveal these women and their life stories. Between 1840 and 1870 this migration or "leave taking" of their old lives back East was a life changing experience, consuming the longest time and widest distance these women would ever travel to establish