Daisy Bell Catherine Brown was only eight years old in 1880, when her physician father, her mother, grandmother, siblings and other relatives decided to join the wagon train in May Day, Kansas, and head for Oregon on the Old Oregon Trail. This is her story, which she began writing seventy-two years later when she was eighty years old. In the meantime, she married three times: First to David Pier, at the age of sixteen, to whom she bore eight children. When he died, she married Al Goldsby, and after his death, Charles Ackley, whom she also outlived. She died at the age of ninety-three. Daisy saw it all, from a wagon train crossing the plains to astronauts in space. She tells how it was on the American frontier, when men were men and women were glad of it. "A remarkable story by a remarkable lady, who is much revered by her hundreds of descendants." --Her grandson, Joseph Pierre who edited and illustrated the book

Woe falls upon Chuck Wagon's wagon train, stranded outside the tiny town of Vinegar Bottle, famed for its "I'm O.K. You're O.K. Corral" and crawling with villains and bandits.

Daisy Belle Catherine Brown (1872-1965) was born in Riley County, Kansas to Joseph Leonidas and Mary Docia Adams Brown. She was one of five children. In 1880 she travelled with her family in a covered wagon train to Washington Territory. In 1888, at the age of sixteen, Daisy married David Clarence Alamando Pier. They were the parents of three or four children. David died in 1924 and Daisy later married Al Godsby and, after his death, Charles Ackley. Descendants live in the Pacific Northwest and other parts of the United States.

Daisy Bell Catherine Brown was only eight years old in 1880, when her physician father, her mother, grandmother, siblings and other relatives decided to join the wagon train in May Day, Kansas, and head for Oregon on the Old Oregon Trail. This is her story, which she began writing seventy-two years later when she was eighty years old. In the meantime, she married three times: First to David Pier, at the age of sixteen, to whom she bore eight children. When he died, she married Al Goldsby, and after his death, Charles Ackley, whom she also outlived. She died at the age of ninety-three. Daisy saw it all, from a wagon train crossing the plains to astronauts in space. She tells how it was on the American frontier, when men were men and women were glad of it. "A remarkable story by a remarkable lady, who is much revered by her hundreds of descendants." --Her grandson, Joseph Pierre who edited and illustrated the book