During the summer of 2008, twenty-four students left their homes in the city, exchanged their shorts and sandals for long dresses and pioneer pants, and set off on a two-week journey on the Oregon and California Trails traveling by wagon train in Wyoming and Oregon. Like the 19th Century pioneers they were “In Pursuit of a Dream.”
Living in tents, riding in mule and horse-drawn wagons, and cooking outside, the students were learning about history by recreating an experience that in the 1800s drew 400,000 people to take part in the westward migration. The film is produced by Boston Productions Inc., in cooperation with the Oregon-California Trails Association.
