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Rachel's Journal
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Marissa Moss |
In her journal, Rachel chronicles her family's adventures traveling by covered wagon on the Oregon Trail in 1850. |
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West along the wagon road, 1852
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Laurie Lawlor |
Eleven-year-old Harriet "Duck" Scott, who isn't nearly as ladylike as her older sisters, finds many opportunities for adventure during an 1852 wagon train trip from Illinois to Oregon Territory, as h… |
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California emigrant letters
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Walker Demarquis Wyman |
177 p. 23 cm |
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How to get rich on the Oregon Trail
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Tod Olson |
This whimsical recounting of one family's journey to their new homestead will give readers an appreciation of the hardships faced by all those who signed up for the great migration. These include hun… |
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Snow mountain passage
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James D. Houston |
"Snow Mountain Passage is a retelling of the most dramatic of our pioneer stories - the ordeal of the Donner Party, with its cast of young and old risking all, its imprisoning snows, its rumors of ca… |
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Golden dreams
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Gwen Bristow |
An account of the California Gold Rush, discussing the people and events involved and the effect of that gold discovery upon the future of California and the nation. |
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West from Salt Lake
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Jesse G. Petersen |
328 p. : 25 cm |
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The diary of David R. Leeper
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David Rohrer Leeper |
A young prospector describes his experiences traveling overland to the California gold fields and during the five years he spent digging for gold. |
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Surviving the Oregon Trail
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Rebecca Stefoff |
"Read about how over half a million men, woman and children risked their lives and traveled west on the Oregon Trail in hopes for a better future"--Provided by publisher. |
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Nine lives of Moses on the Oregon Trail
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Marion Fuller Archer |
A twelve-year-old girl travels West with her mother and brother along the Oregon trail and has many adventures with the cat she insists on taking along. |
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How I survived the Oregon Trail
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Wilson, Laura |
A young boy keeps a journal describing his family's five-month journey across country in a covered wagon. Each entry includes a game, recipe, or other related activity. |
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Clem's chances
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Sonia Levitin |
In 1860, fourteen-year-old Clem Fontayne learns from fellow travelers about important topics of the day, including the Mormon migration, slavery, and the Pony express, as he journeys from Missouri to… |
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The Oregon Trail
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Rinker Buck |
Spanning 2,000 miles and traversing six states from Missouri to the Pacific Ocean, the Oregon Trail is the route that made America. In the fifteen years before the Civil War, when 400,000 pioneers us… |
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The promise of the West
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Mary Barmeyer O'Brien |
"Driven by the promise of prosperity and opportunity on the frontier, thousands of men and women traveled west in the mid-1800s to forge a new life. Accompanying them were their children, wide-eyed a… |
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Devil's Gate
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David Roberts |
"The Mormon handcart tragedy of 1856 is the worst disaster in the history of the Western migrations, and yet it remains virtually unknown today outside Mormon circles. Following the death of Joseph S… |
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Suzannah and the secret coins
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Elaine L. Schulte |
In 1848 twelve-year-old Suzannah and her cousin Daniel travel with their families from the East Coast along the National Road, also known as the Cumberland Road, to the Missouri frontier, and a blizz… |
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The great Platte River road
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Merrill J. Mattes |
"This is a study in depth of the eastern third of the central overland trail system from the Missouri River to the Pacific Coast, that part which followed the Platte River via Fort Kearny to Fort Lar… |
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Frontier Courtship (Steeple Hill Love Inspired Historical #4)
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Valerie Hansen |
She had made a solemn promise to see her younger sister to safety in California. But the endless journey across the frontier was proving a heartbreaking test of courage and endurance for Faith Beal. … |
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The storm seekers
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Gwen Moffat |
346 pages, 12 unnumbered pages of plates (large print) : 24 cm |
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The Donner Party
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Roger Wachtel |
Recounts the journey of the Donner Party which, in 1846, sought to travel from Independence, Missouri, to California but took an untried shortcut that trapped them in the Sierra Nevada mountains duri… |
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