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“Why are we here? Why have we left home, friends, relatives, associates, and loved ones, who have made so large a part of our lives and added so much to our happiness?”

On May 1, 1865, Sarah Raymond mounted her beloved pony and, riding alongside the wagon carrying her mother and two younger brothers, left war-torn Missouri and headed west.

With the sole motive of bettering themselves, the Raymonds began their journey undecided as to whether California or Oregon would be their ultimate destination.

By the middle of June, however, they had been persuaded that Montana was in fact the place to make for and the train altered path accordingly.

As they passed through Iowa, Nebraska and Wyoming towards the Rocky Mountains, they faced all manner of perils in experiencing the harsh reality of life on the Great Plains.

After four months and four days, the wagon train finally arrived in Virginia City, Montana in early September, and they set about beginning their new lives.

Unvarnished and evocative, Days on the Road is an extraordinary journal of what it was really like on the trail for the many who emigrated west in a bid to start over.

Sarah Raymond Herndon (1840-1914) arrived in Montana at the height of the Gold Rush in 1865. After teaching there for one school year, she married James M. Herndon in 1867. In addition to Days on the Road she also kept a diary of her experiences in Virginia City.

ASIN ‏ : ‎ B01DCBZWRY
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Lume Books (March 22, 2016)
Publication date ‏ : ‎ March 22, 2016
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 2003 KB
Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Print length ‏ : ‎ 290 pages
Page numbers source ISBN ‏ : ‎ 1117321274
Reviewer: D. Elliott
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: A colorful accounting of interesting history
Review: I enjoyed reading it. It was not boring or dull. I learned some interesting things. She is a good writer.

Reviewer: Sam Justus
Rating: 4.0 out of 5 stars
Title: interesting read
Review: An easy book to read. It is a really great history of crossing the country in the 1860’s. Well written.

Reviewer: Kylie Quillian
Rating: 3.0 out of 5 stars
Title: It’s exactly as the title says and nothing more.
Review: The book was exactly as the title says and nothing more.This is a diary of a woman crossing from Missouri to Montana. I wouldn’t read it again, but also, it wasn’t a poorly written book.I really wished it told about their struggles once they got to their destination, but hey, this is the real life account of an emigrant who actually made it to her destination when many others weren’t so lucky.

Reviewer: Kindle Customer
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Enjoyable
Review: My mother's side of my family traveled west by covered wagon around the same time as this book.It is easy to read and is a fair description of the stories I heard growing up. There were a couple places where I wondered if she had gone without writing and then caught her narrative back up. Those places just seem thin. I especially liked how she dealt with boredom. My family all settled in Idaho. My great great grandma Amanda took her family to the mountains near Fairfield and built a sawmill. Her daughter, my great grandma Pat, was still alive and kicking' until I was in my twenties. I still savor the stories she and the whole family told.Read this book. Anyone from ten to 90 will feel they understand how the western USA was settled. It would make an unusual book report for students.

Reviewer: Becky in Michigan
Rating: 4.0 out of 5 stars
Title: An Engrossing Historical Account
Review: While the editing in the first half of the book made for some confusing passages, with entire paragraphs from previous pages being re-inserted out of context, and occasional misspellings, the story was engrossing and entertaining. I recommend this book to anyone interested in this era, being a first-hand accounting of an historical and dangerous journey.

Reviewer: marian grimm
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: montana or bust
Review: Great story.love this stories of how the West was won. This is especially true in this writing with the gift of everyday experiences. Wish I had a transcript of the days when my great grand father was in the running for the strip. Then the family all traveled from Kansas to Oklahoma. Would love to read more of them.

Reviewer: LF
Rating: 3.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Characters hard to keep track of!
Review: This story line made into diary form was hard to read and understand the characters within this trek. Half the time I didn't know who was who. But for sure a typical diary might be written like that.Nonetheless I found it a bit frustrating to read.The time is later 1800's and Indian problems weren't as critical as earlier days, though there were signs or evidence to scalping and killings when people were alone or just a few people secluded. Horse thievery was common place for Indians to sneak around and steal.I've read many many westward experiences some true some fictitious. I guess this was not a favorite of mine.

Reviewer: Former USARMC.
Rating: 4.0 out of 5 stars
Title: One mile, then, another!
Review: I found very little to dislike. Plain and simple ,most engaging style.Having lived in North Dakota, Now Montana. The words on these pages leap into reality of early life in the west. What it took to get here, the long days, over every rise a new scene of beauty and surprises.Virtually None of the daily big drama and violence of Hollywood depictions. Would be wonderful tool for educating our youth of the real western treks.

Reviewer: Colleen Toohey, Australia
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title:
Review: A good true to life tale of a woman's trek across the Western Wagons' Trail.Her adventures and hardships come to life ,as she describes the sights around her.A good read

Reviewer: Mr. Peter Franklin
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title:
Review: This, in effect is the diary of a young woman who is "going west" in 1865 on a wagon train in North America. For someone who isn't a writer, this is a refreshingly easy read. What's more, like many autobiographical pieces written around this time, the author has no axe to grind. She doesn't have a reputation to embellish and she isn't an outlaw trying to justify that way of life. It's just a story about the trip from east to west through her eyes. Which makes it all the more readable.For those that want excitement and gunplay, there's nothing Louis L'Amour here, although a few incidents do happen and are recorded. But more than that, you get a picture of the daily life of those making the journey. Living in a prairie schooner, finding food for the stock, crossing the great rivers of the region, the scenery, the hunting, cooking, health problems, inevitable deaths, the weather and suchlike. All of which is told in the style of a young, intelligent woman. Fascinating!Our heroine's views on what were called Indians are also fascinating. This, of course is set around 10 years before the battle of Little Bighorn. So the tribes are generally still living on the plains as they used to, but with such modern accoutrements as firearms. This particular wagon train sees little "Indian trouble" but we hear that others recently have not been so lucky. Graves beside the trail are not uncommon. Miss Herndon does describe the natives they come across though. She describes them as ugly and living in primitive conditions in their tents without modern (of the time) conveniences. She sees some tents that are occupied by white men who have taken squaws as wives, the thought of which she finds abhorrent. The Indians are seen as, in effect, primitive peoples who live in pretty squalid conditions who prey on white travellers when they find vulnerabilities. On a couple of occasions she remarks that he can see no evidence of "noble savages" she has no doubt heard of back east.Anyway, I have rambled on too much about that side issue, I find. So, moving on, if you need to research those times this is, I'm sure, a good book to read. But more than that, it's just a good read. You've got the juxtaposition of the rugged West alongside the thoughts of a young woman, with all that entails. As I think I wrote above, fascinating.

Reviewer: Robert Seed
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title:
Review: A very insightful glance at the push to settle the American west and the hardships and brutality that accompanied the many who braved the challenge.

Reviewer: Kindle Customer
Rating: 4.0 out of 5 stars
Title:
Review: Well written. Captures the imagination. Brings the journey to life. Was sorry to have it end & hope another book is forthcoming

Reviewer: Philip R Saunders
Rating: 4.0 out of 5 stars
Title:
Review: This delightful little book is about a young woman who with her family went west with a wagon train, to escape the troubles of the Civil War. She had a good eye for detail when writing down her journel. She speaks of the beauty of the mountains, the foods they ate, the Indians they encountered and troubles along the way. It reminded me in some respects of the Wagon Train tv series from the Sixties. Human stories with some humour and sometimes tragic in places. An enjoyable read from start to finish. Well worth the one click.