Emeline L. Fuller (1847-1924) When the last wagon tain of 1860 161 laho Tariony's For Halland reamed its westward journey on the Oregon Trail, it soon found itself ensnared in a deadly battle that evolved into one of the most gruesome chapters in the history of the American West. The tragedy began on a September day when a group of Bannock Indians attacked the wagons, and it ended forty-nine days later when cavalry troops rescued the survivors from their struggle against murder, starvation, and cannibalism. Of the forty-four emigrants in the wagon train, only twelve survived, one of them thirteen-year-old Emeline Trimble, who lost the other eleven members of her family during the seven-week ordeal. It is because of Emeline that this firsthand account of the tragedy exists, a remarkable tale of courage, endurance, and survival on the old Oregon Trail.