My ggrandparents, Charles and Roseann (Echelberger) Hill came to Oregon to visit friends in 1875 by train from Nebraska. For some reason, they chose to go home by wagon, along the Oregon Trail. I have the hand-written original journal of that trip home from south of Eugene to Portland, and east to York County, Nebraska, where Charles was one of the (or the) first settler after the Civil War. They ended up with 13 kids, and in 1924, their next to youngest, Mabel, and her husband, Floyd Masters, and their 6 six kids plus Floyd's mother, "Mother Masters" (Laura Haney Masters) in an automobile! - Diane Wagner diwag@attbi.com