Idaho wagon train massacres

While traveling in Idaho, we ran into a group of wagons doing a reenactment of the Oregon Trail days.

Those on the wagon train reported how much fun they were having. It was a far cry from two wagon trains that ended as massacres while in Idaho, the Ward train and the Van Ornum/Utter trains.

The trains crossed the Snake River at a place that was shallow enough and where the rushing river was still...