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COMMUNITY RATING
The year is 1845, the earliest days of the Oregon Trail, and a wagon team of three families has hired the mountain man Stephen Meek to guide them over the Cascade Mountains. Claiming to know a short cut, Meek leads the group on an unmarked path across the high plain desert, only to become lost in the dry rock and sage. Over the coming days, the emigrants must face the scourges of hunger, thirst, and their own lack of faith in each other's instincts for survival. When a Native American wanderer crosses their path, the emigrants are torn between their trust in a guide who has proven himself unreliable and a man who has always been seen as the natural enemy.
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Posted by Bob Fryer on 2010-01-01 22:17:49
Somewhat surprised that I just learned of this project. In the early/mid 1970s I researched this trail, and guided Donna Wojcik and her husband over much of the route. Ms. Wojcik wrote a book about those pioneers: "The Brazen Overlanders of 1845." Many of my photos of the cut-off are in the book.