Presents thirty true stories about little-known or unique events that occurred in the North and South during the Civil War, from the making of gunpowder out of urine, to the choice of an innocent man to be executed in the the place of his brother.
Provides insight to the hardships incurred by those who endured the two-thousand-mile journey across the plains, mountains, deserts, and rivers from Missouri to California and Oregon during the mid-1800s.
