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So Rugged and So Mountainous: Blazing the Trails to Oregon and California, 1812-1848 by Will Bagley Publisher Comments The story of America’s westward migration is a powerful blend of fact and fable. Over the course of three decades, almost a million eager fortune-hunters, pioneers, and visionaries transformed the face of a continent—and displaced its... (read more) Your price: $48.00 New - Hardcover 
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To the Rockies and Oregon, 1839-1842 by Leroy Reuben Hafen Publisher Comments With Diaries And Accounts By Sidney Smith, Amos Cook, Joseph Holman, E. Willard Smith, Francis Fletcher, Joseph Williams, Obadiah Oakley, Robert Shortess, T. J. Farnham.... (read more) Your price: $50.95 New - Hardcover
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The Oregon Trail (National Geographic Adventure Classics) by Francis Parkman Publisher Comments Drawn from a list of the 100 best adventure books of all times compiled by a panel of experts, the Adventure Classics have been selected for their adrenaline quotient and their status as classics of the adventure genre. All the tides for the series... (read more) Your price: $13.50 New - Trade Paper
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Covered Wagon Women Volume 1 by Kenneth L Holmes Publisher Comments The women who traveled west in covered wagons during the 1840s speak through these letters and diaries. Here are the voices of Tamsen Donner and young Virginia Reed, members of the ill-fated Donner party; Patty Sessions, the Mormon midwife who delivered... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Across the Great Divide: Robert Stuart and the Discovery of the Oregon Trail by Laton Mccartney Publisher Comments In the tradition of Lewis and Clark in Undaunted Courage comes the never-before-told story of Robert Stuart, whose discovery of the Oregon Trail changed America forever. Before 1813, the Rocky Mountains—the formidable 3,000 mile chain running from... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price: $11.50 Used - Hardcover
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Wyeth's Oregon by John Wyeth Publisher Comments It is, indeed, a short history of a long journey, spanning the entire U.S., from Boston to Oregon.... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $8.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Oregon Trail: An American Saga by David Dary Publisher Comments A major one-volume history of the Oregon Trail from its earliest beginnings to the present, by a prize-winning historian of the American West. Starting with an overview of Oregon Country in the early 1800s, a vast area then the object of... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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The Mountains We Have Crossed: Diaries and Letters of the Oregon Mission, 1838 by Clifford Merrill Drury Publisher Comments Four newlywed couples, along with one single man, were sent to Oregon in 1838 to reinforce the two-year-old mission established by Marcus Whitman and Henry Spalding. These reinforcements were to become legendary in the history of the Pacific Northwest... (read more) List Price $23.75 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Great Platte River Road: The Covered Wagon Mainline Via Fort Kearny to Fort Laramie by Merrill J Mattes Publisher Comments The Great Platte River Road through Nebraska and Wyoming was the grand corridor of America's westward expansion. A number of famous trails converged in the broad valley of the Platte, forming a kind of primitive superhighway for the great covered wagon... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $10.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Wagon Wheel Kitchens: Food on the Oregon Trail by Jacqueline Williams Publisher Comments In this book, I gather the information and the data pertaining to mid-nineteenth-centruy culinary habits and examine it from the perspective of the people who lived in the prairie schooners. The focus is on the early months of travel, when supplies were... (read more) List Price $14.50 Your price: $4.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Oregon Trail Stories (03 Edition) by David Klausmeyer Publisher Comments Beginning in the early 1840s, literature about the West turned a trickle of hardy pioneers braving the Great Plains for a chance at a new life in the far West into a rushing torrent. Thousands chose to travel the more than 2,000 miles to the Pacific... (read more) List Price $9.95 Your price: $6.00 Used - Trade Paper
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The Oregon Trail: A Photographic Journey by Bill Moeller Publisher Comments Bill and Jan Moeller meticulously traced and captured on film the remnants of the Oregon Trail--surprisingly intact in many places. The resulting full-color photographs, accompanied by selected entries from emigrant diaries, evoke for the modern reader... (read more) List Price $18.00 Your price: $12.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Utter Disaster on the Oregon Trail: The Utter & Van Ornum Massacres of 1860 by Donald H Shannon Publisher Comments The greatest disaster to befall a emigrant party on the Oregon Trail occurred in September 1860 in what is now southwestern Idaho. A party composed of eight wagons and 44 men, women and children was attacked by hostile Indians. Almost two months later, a... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $11.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Oregon Trail, Yesterday and Today: A Brief History and Pictorial Journey along the Wagon Tracks of Pioneers by William E. Hill Publisher Comments In these pages the reader will find a description of the history of the Oregon Trail - from past to present. Inside the reader will find a unique blend of maps, guides, emigrant diaries, journals, and old drawings as well as recent photographs of... (read more) List Price $10.36 Your price: $9.19 Google eBooks - Electronic
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The Oregon Trail by Francis Parkman Publisher Comments Originally serialized in Knickerbocker's Magazine between 1847 and 1849, The Oregon Trail is a fascinating chronicle of Francis Parkman's travels on the Oregon Trail during the summer of 1846 through the western states of Kansas, Nebraska, Wyoming, and... (read more) List Price $4.99 Your price: $4.43 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Massacre Rocks by Donald H Shannon Synopsis Donald Shannon presents the third in his series of books on Indian attacks on emigrant trains on the Oregon Trail west of the Rocky Mountains. Massacre Rocks and City of Rocks details attacks that took place in 1862 at those two sites in what is now... (read more) Your price: $16.95 New - Trade Paper
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The Oregon Trail (Penguin American Library) by Francis Jr Parkman Publisher Comments On April 28, 1846, Francis Parkman left Saint Louis on his first expedition west. The Oregon Trail documents his adventures in the wilderness, sheds light on America's westward expansion, and celebrates the American spirit.... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $4.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Seven Months to Oregon: 1853 by Harold J. Peters Publisher Comments A remarkable new book of diary and reminiscent accounts of several missionary families who traveled from Upstate New York to Oregon. Gustavus Hines, two of his brothers, their families, and trail companions wrote extensively of the trip. They traveled by... (read more) Your price: $24.95 New - Trade Paper
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Ox-Team Days by Ezra Meeker Publisher Comments In 1852, Ezra Meeker, his wife, and baby traveled along the Oregon Trrail by ox-cart from Iowa to Oregon. In 1906, he reversed his steps and went back to Iowa. In 1915, he went by car, and, later, even flew over the trail in a plane. He spent most of his... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $10.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Covered Wagon Women #5: Covered Wagon Women: Diaries & Letters from the Western Trails, 1852: The Oregon Trail by Kenneth L Holmes Publisher Comments Abigail Jane Scott was seventeen when she left Illinois with her family in the spring of 1852. Her record of the journey west is full of expressive detail: breakfasting in a snowstorm, walking behind the wagons to keep warm, tasting buffalo meat, trying... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price: $11.95 Used - Trade Paper
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