The second book of the Call of the Frontier series will be available July 1, 2021. It follows the story of my great–great grandfather, Cornelius Joel Hills, as he captained the Hills wagon train of 1851. He had crossed the prairies once on horseback and traveled to the Willamette Valley in Oregon to lay claim […]
Conestoga wagons
Storykeepers #15–Packing and Pacing
Though my great-great-grandmother had grown up in the aftermath of the Black Hawk War on lands that would become the new state of Iowa after 1833, she must have had many misgivings waiting to join her future husband in the Oregon wilderness. Infrequent letters made communication difficult. Not knowing what her intended faced on the […]