APPLEGATE VALLEY, Ore. A local author’s book about re-enacting travel along the Oregon Trail with a wagon train has recently been published.
Life along the Applegate Trail: A Tale of Grit and Determination debuted March 8th with hardcover and paperback.
The author, local woman Linda Lochard, used her re-enactment experience along with 1846 diary entries from real pioneers to create her novel.
“It’s been really interesting because everyone needs something from a book, whether that’s history, a romance novel, educative [reading] or something just to entertain them and I think this book has a lot of everything in it,” said Lochard.