Dysentery, starvation, no toilet paper, a swarm of bees: the Oregon Trail was host to a pantheon of nightmares for our nation’s settlers. So forgive them if they and their adult daughters don’t celebrate the one good thing frontierswomen had going for them: having a lover that made you wanna to stay up all night long. You had to stay up anyway, because of the wolves, so a lover really took the edge off. And thus did Mandy Moore’s ancestors spread baby-voiced, teen-sex pop all across this great nation of ours.
