The journal of Jedediah Barstow, an emigrant on the Oregon Trail

By Ellen Levine

Subjects: Oregon national historic trail, fiction, Overland journeys to the Pacific, Frontier and pioneer life, Orphans, fiction, Diaries, fiction, Diaries, Fiction, Frontier and pioneer life, fiction, Children's fiction, Orphans, Overland journeys to the pacific, fiction, West (u.s.), fiction, Juvenile fiction, Western stories

Description: In his 1845 diary, thirteen-year-old orphan Jedediah describes his wagon train journey to Oregon, in which he confronts rivers and sandy plains, bears and rattlesnakes, and the challenges of living with his fellow travelers. Includes historical notes.