Pete Peters was a boy when his grandpa took him to see an old trail outpost called Alkali Station, a stopping point on the Oregon Trail. Though it was a grassy pasture the day Pete first saw it, wagon ruts and the outline of the old post remained visible as they still are today. Living along the historic route his entire life, Pete amassed a collection of old bottles, weapons, arrowheads, and other things left behind as people traveled west. He also witnessed the trail's evolution into the moder