Early settlers coming to Oregon crossed vast plains, foreboding mountains
and hot deserts, only to find their biggest challenge - navigating the
dangerous Columbia River. Inspired to find an alternative route, immigrants founded the Applegate Trail in 1846. A SOUTH ROAD TO OREGON: THE HISTORY OF THE APPLEGATE TRAIL traces the construction and controversy
surrounding this long, treacherous southern branch of the Oregon Trail
from Fort Hall, Idaho through parts of Nevada, California and southern
Oregon into the settlements of the lush Willamette Valley. The story is
told through historically accurate reenactments based on diaries, journals
and letters of the principle historic figures and interviews from immigrants? descendants. Narrated by well-known historian and columnist
Russell Sadler.

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