By Roberta McKern
For The New Era
While thinking about the East Linn Museum and stories from it of the trek made down the
Oregon Trail by those who settled here, the words “shank’s mare” came to mind.
Some pioneers likely traveled by shank’s mare nearly most of the way. That is, they walked.
True, when we think of the unity of traveling in wagon trains, we can imagine them riding along, but in reality,…