The Pioneers Go West (Landmark Books)

Seventeen-year-old Moses Schallenberger wanted to go to California. In 1844 he joined a wagon train to do just that. There was only one problem: Nobody had ever made it to California by wagon before. For a year he and 50 others struggled through high mountain passes and across wide rushing rivers enduring dangerous encounters with Indians and buffalo inclement weather difficult terrain near-starvation and disaster.Ultimately Moses and his friends succeededbecoming the first pioneers to cross the Sierra Nevadas by wagon. Today the trail they blazed is a major route into California.