The Old Iron RoadIn the summer of 2000 David Haward Bain and his family left their home in Vermont and headed west in search of Americas past. Spiritually, their journey began on a Kansas trail where the authors grandmother was born in a covered wagon in 1889. Between the Missouri River and the Golden Gate, they retraced the entire route of the first transcontinental railroad and large stretches of the Oregon and California trails, and the equally colorful old Lincoln