I know it has been mentioned before, but the American Memory page is a great place to explore. It contains manuscripts done from the Federal Writers' Project 1936-1940. People were sent out thru WPA to interview people, so there are a lot of pioneer stories. you can find in on Barrel of Genealogy Links page - number 8 or... http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/wpaintro/wpahome.html For example: (will not print all of it, four pages long) 17 February 1939 - Pioneer Story - source was Mollie Grove Smith of White Oaks, New Mexico. She tells her life story, and talks about the wagon train she was on at age 6. The went from Brown County Texas to New Mexico in 1884. Her family name was Grove, and a family named Willis was with them. Willis family stayed at Pecos, Texas. So at Pecos, Texas the Grove family was joined by two other families for the rest of the trip. They were F. M. Evans, his wife, and ten children with about 100 head of cattle. Also George Castleberry, his wife and severn children. All three families settled in James Canyon in New Mexico, and her story goes on about the 3 groups living beside each other, after about 3 years they were joined by two families - the Hunter and the Holden families. First teacher was Elvira Kinney. They had a post office then called Pine Springs. And it goes on from there. Mentions going to Roswell to get Christmas things if that is any help in location. So there is a lot of good info in these stories. You can search by state, surname, topic, etc. Mary [email protected]