Monday, May 07, 2007

Overland Trails Letters and Diaries

The Trail of Hope Website, sponsored at Brigham Young University is a collection of 49 Pioneers that traveled across the lone wilderness on the Mormon, California, Oregon, and Montana trails. Information provided on this site covers the time period in American History between 1846 to 1869. The writings that have been digitized and organized in an easily searched format which include their thoughts, hope, trials, pictures, maps and numerous other tid bits of information that would be interesting to those searching for their pioneer ancestors.

The writings of these Pioneers, will help one to understand what it may have been like for their own ancestors in traveling across the plains. If you would like to browse and learn more about the Overland Trails, click
here to transfer to this site.

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