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Author
Series
The Oregon Trail volume 4
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2018]
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Description
"The end of the Oregon Trail is near, young pioneer--the fourth and final leg of your journey starts here. But, do you have the grit to make it to Oregon City? The wild frontier is full of risks and unpredictable surprises! This is the final installment of four books that will take you all the way to Oregon Territory--if you make the right choices"--
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2002
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.
45) Koda
Author
Series
Horse diaries volume 3
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
2009
Description
Traveling with his owners from Missouri to Oregon in 1848, Koda, an energetic two-year-old quarter horse, finds the long journey increasingly tedious and tiring until his young owner goes missing on the trail and he must use all his skills to find her.
46) Mr. Tucket
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Description
In 1848, while on a wagon train headed for Oregon, fourteen-year-old Francis Tucket is kidnapped by Pawnee Indians and then falls in with a one-armed trapper who teaches him how to live in the wild.
47) Santa Fe woman
Author
Publisher
B & H Publishing Group
Pub. Date
c2006
Description
"Ever since her mother's death, twenty-two year old Jori Hayden has lived safely under the shelter of her wealthy father. But when the severe economic depression of the 1800s destroys the family's fortune, the Haydens must venture west together along the Santa Fe Trail in search of a new livelihood. In a journey marked with danger at every turn, romance, faith, and family prove to be the biggest fortunes of all."--from publisher's description.
48) Westward hearts
Author
Series
Homeward on the Oregon Trail volume 1
Publisher
Harvest House Publishers
Pub. Date
c2012
Description
Kentucky, 1854. Elizabeth has mourned her husband's death for three years, but now she feels ready to fulfill the dream they had shared: to take their two children west. At Kansas City, they join a substantial wagon train. Elizabeth soon finds herself being drawn to the group's handsome guide, Eli Kincade.
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Description
A novel in verse by the author of The Watch That Ends the Night recounts the chilling survival tale of the Donner party during the 1846-1847 winter from the perspectives of its leaders, a scholarly wife, two Miwok guides, the Reed children, and other historical figures.
53) Gold rush!
Author
Series
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2019]
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Description
A pioneer heads west on the Oregon Trail in search of gold, in a book where the reader's choices determine the outcome of the expedition.
Author
Publisher
TwoDot
Pub. Date
©2009
Description
"Based on the remarkable story of one woman's brave struggle to keep her family alive during one of the most arduous and dramatic episodes in the history of Western migration. A riveting narrative by a writer known for her books on pioneers, "Across Death Valley" is a fictionalized account based on the true story of the legendary journey that Juliet Wells Brier, her husband, and their three sons undertook during the Gold Rush from Salt Lake City to...
Author
Publisher
C.M. Russell Museum
Pub. Date
2017.
Description
For months after their return from a hunting expedition, Frank and Archie talked of nothing else, until one day their thoughts and conversation turned to the arrival of an uncle, who had just returned from California. Reproduction of fiction work as illustrated by Charles M. Russell as a gift to his nephew. Story originally published circa 1903.
57) Wyoming
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The first wagon train to Oregon country moves slowly across the Great Plains, reaching the foothills of the Rocky Mountains in early autumn. Led by wagon scout 'Whip' Holt, the five-hundred-strong community of courageous men, women, and children prepare for the bitter winter ahead. Among them are dreamers and drifters, foreigners and natives, friends and enemies.
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2018]
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Description
It's 1850, and you are setting off on the treacherous Oregon Trail. In this first book of four, your goal is to get you and your family to Chimney Rock on time. But many dangers await you on the journey ahead. Wild animals, natural disasters, sickness, and other obstacles stand between you and your destination. Which path will get you safely across the prairie? With more than twenty possible endings, choose wrong and you'll never make it to Chimney...
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Publisher
Center Point Large Print
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Based on true events, this compelling survival story by award-winning novelist Jane Kirkpatrick is full of grit and endurance. Beset by storms, bad timing, and desperate decisions, 8 women, 17 children, and one man must outlast winter in the middle of the Sierra Nevada Mountains in 1844.
1844. The Stevens-Murphy company left Missouri to be the first wagons into California through the Sierra Nevada Mountains. Mostly Irish Catholics, the party sought...
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