Blazing a Wagon Trail to Oregon: A Weekly Chronicle of the Great Migration of 1843, Paperback/Lloyd W. Coffman

The story of a determined group of American pioneers who set out to move their families on wheeled vehicles from the settled frontier in Missouri to the far Pacific shore About the Author: Lloyd W. Coffman holds a master's degree in history from Washington State University. In the early 1990s, at the request of Eastern Oregon State University, he developed and taught a class on the history of the Oregon Trail. Now semiretired, he and his wife, Janet, reside in McMinnville, Oregon.