Native Nations, Ancient Paths: The True Story of the Oregon Trail

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…The dream of Oregon, once so clear and bright, was now a hazy, uncertain destination, shrouded in the dust and hardship of the trail. Eliza took a deep breath, the dry air scratching at her throat. She had to keep going. For Thomas, for her family, for the promise of a life she could only yet imagine. But as the last rays of sunlight bled from the sky, casting long, spectral shadows across the plains, she couldn't shake the feeling that they were teetering on the edge of something immense, something that would test them in ways they could not yet comprehend. The trail, it seemed, was far from over.