The story of a pioneering Chinese family who lived in Texas for one hundred years. Sam MarDock came to the United States in 1875 and made his way with his wife to Tyler Texas in 1912.
In 1853, the Larkin family loaded up their wagons and headed west in search of a new life. But how did they do it? What did they eat? How did they survive sickness, and attacks from cattle thieves? Drawing on diaries and letters, and illustrated with photographs of actual object from the past, Daily Life in a Covered Wagon explores what life was really like on the wagon trail.
