About a year ago I started posting articles on "The Free Emigrant Road & The Lost Wagon Train of 1853." A great number of distractions and the loss of my computer interrupted that series, and I have not been able to get back to it until now. So, with the list members indulgence, I'll begin posting again. The information is a compilation of my own research including Tibbetts and Clark family oral tradition; extractions from "The Oregon Historical Quarterly," articles by Leah Collins Menefee, 1976-1978; and "The Tibbetts Family 1635-1940" compiled by Mrs. May (Tibbetts) Jarvis, New England Historic Genealogical Society Resident Member.