Days on the Road: Crossing the Plains in 1865

Days on the Road is Sarah Raymond Herndon’s famous journal of her family’s heartbreaking but inspiring trek across the Great Plains towards the Rocky Mountains in a wagon-train in early 1865 as the United States Civil War is coming to an end. 24-year old Herndon’s colorful travelogue, written on the trail, is both an important historical document and a suspenseful, absorbing read.