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Stout-Hearted Seven
by Neta Lohnes Frazier  Publisher Comments Stout-Hearted Seven is a dramatized account of the Sager siblings, seven children who were orphaned on the Oregon Trail and adopted by missionaries Marcus and Narcissa Whitman. Though the story is fictionalized and reads in the form of a novel, the tale...
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It Happened on the Oregon Trail 1ST Edition
by Tricia M Wagner Publisher Comments Many of the events along the Oregon Trail are well known—the perils of the Applegate family as they rafted down the raging Columbia River, the plight of the Donner Party as they found themselves snowbound and starving at Truckee Lake. But do you...
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The Prairie Traveler
by Randolph Barnes Marcy Synopsis Filled with helpful information that was essential for safe travel west as well as a fascinating view of the strenuous life faced by prairie travelers before the era of the railroad....
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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...
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Covered Wagon Women Volume 7
by Kenneth L Holmes Publisher Comments Some of the women traveling west in the late 1850s were strong advocates of equal rights for their sex. On the trail, Julia Archibald Holmes and Hannah Keziah Clapp sensibly wore the “freedom costume” called bloomers. In 1858 Holmes joined...
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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...
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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...
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Covered Wagon Women Volume 2
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...
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The Oregon Trail (Economy Editions)
by Francis Parkman Publisher Comments The Oregon Trail traces a journey into the heart of the American Plains by Francis Parkman, who undertook ms 1846 expedition in order to document the vanishing frontier; his keen observations and vivid style quickly established his reputation. Parkman...
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The Discovery of the Oregon Trail: Robert Stuart's Narratives of His Overland Trip Eastward from Astoria in 1812-13
by Philip Asht Rollins Publisher Comments Robert Stuart saw the American West a few years after Meriwether Lewis and William Clark and, like them, kept a journal of his epic experience. A partner in John Jacob Astor’s Pacific Fur Company, the Scotsman shipped for Oregon aboard the Tonquin...
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Westward Vision: The Story of the Oregon Trail
by David Sievert Lavender Publisher Comments “In one very real sense,” David Lavender writes, “the story of the Oregon Trail begins with Columbus.” This opening suggests the panoramic sweep of his history of that famous trail. In chiseled, colorful prose, Lavender...
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The Emigrant's Guide to Oregon and California
by Lansford Hastings Synopsis A popular guidebook during the western expansion and a valuable collectible today, The Emigrantsi Guide was first published in 1845. While the book introduced those heading west to the beauty and habitable nature of the Pacific coast, it had considerable...
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Gender and Generation on the Far Western Frontier (Women's Western Voices)
by Cynthia Cu Prescott Publisher Comments As her family traveled the Oregon Trail in 1852, Mary Ellen Todd taught herself to crack the ox whip. Though gender roles often blurred on the trail, families quickly tried to re-establish separate roles for men and women once they had staked their...
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Across the Great Divide: Robert Stuart and the Discovery of the Oregon Trail
by Laton Mccartney Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. 277-291) and index....
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The Oregon Trail
by Ralph Compton Publisher Comments They Risked Their Lives To Bring Cattle to Missouri. Now They Faced A Journey Twics As Dangerous... The only riches Texans had left after the Civil War were five million maverick longhorns and the brains, brawn and boldness to drive them north to where...
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The Mountains We Have Crossed: Diaries and Letters of the Oregon Mission, 1838
by Clifford 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...
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Oregon Trail Stories: True Accounts of Life in a Covered Wagon
by Globe Pequot Press Publisher Comments In the mid-1800s, thousands of hardy pioneers braved the long and arduous journey across the Great Plains for a chance to build a new life in the West. These emigrants traveled more than 2,000 treacherous miles to the Pacific Ocean over the Oregon Trail...
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The Oregon Trail: A Photographic Journey
by Bill Moeller Synopsis 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...
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The Prairie Traveler: The 1859 Handbook for Westbound Pioneers (Dover Value Editions)
by Randolph B Marcy Publisher Comments Along with a good rifle and a sturdy horse, this guidebook was essential for westward-bound pioneers. Originally published by the War Department, Capt. Marcy's manual offers life-or-death advice on choosing the best routes to California, food supplies...
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The Stout-Hearted Seven: Orphaned on the Oregon Trail (Sterling Point Books)
by Neta Lohnes Frazier Publisher Comments Based on a true story originally written by one of the survivors, Neta Lohnes Frazier’s account of seven children traveling westward still has the power to astonish. In the 1840s, the Sager family set off on the Oregon Trail, a dangerous and...
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