<p><span class="deck"> <span class="typestyle"> “Surveyor, mountain man, soldier, businessman, wanderer, captain of emigrants, farmer…he was himself the westward-moving frontier.”</span> </span></p>
<p>The first caravans lumbered across 2000 miles of dangerous, inhospitable wilderness in 1843, the year of the Great Migration. To a surprising degree, it’s still possible to follow something very like their route.</p>
<p><span class="deck"> It was tough going, but the road over the Sierras <span class="typestyle"> could</span> be used by men who understood how to travel </span></p>
