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Illustrations and simple rhyming text follow a family as they make the difficult journey by wagon to a new home across the Rocky Mountains. Full-color illustrations.
Author : Verla Kay
Publisher : Putnam Juvenile
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 19,52 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Frontier and pioneer life
ISBN : 9780399229282
Illustrations and simple rhyming text follow a family as they make the difficult journey by wagon to a new home across the Rocky Mountains. Full-color illustrations.
Author : Paul Erickson
Publisher : Turtleback Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 18,83 MB
Release : 1997-07
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780613028387
Describes what it was like traveling on the Oregon Trail, including what travelers ate, wore, and saw along the route
Author : Jennifer Quasha
Publisher : The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
Page : 54 pages
File Size : 41,47 MB
Release : 2000-12-15
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780823957040
Briefly discusses American westward expansion in the 1800s, with related projects and activities, such as making a small covered wagon, flatboat house, trail journal, and lantern.
Author : Kenneth L. Holmes
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 21,33 MB
Release : 2020-08-11
Category : History
ISBN : 1496225546
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 five babies on the trail between Omaha and Salt Lake City; Rachel Fisher, who buried both her husband and her little girl before reaching Oregon. Still others make themselves heard, starting out from different places and recording details along the way, from the mundane to the soul-shattering and spirit-lifting.
Author : David Williams
Publisher : Knopf Books for Young Readers
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 30,36 MB
Release : 1993
Category : Frontier and pioneer life
ISBN : 9780679802532
Grandma Essie describes how her family left Missouri by covered wagon looking for a better life and lived in Kansas and Oklahoma before returning to Missouri.
Author : Rinker Buck
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 49,56 MB
Release : 2015-06-30
Category : History
ISBN : 1451659164
A new American journey.
Author : Ellen Levine
Publisher : Turtleback Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 27,37 MB
Release : 1992-08
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780808579236
For use in schools and libraries only. Answers questions about what it was like to travel to the Oregon Territory by covered wagon, crossing rivers, mountains, and prairie.
Author : Kenneth L. Holmes
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 35,27 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780806139142
Eight firsthand accounts in very different voices tell what life was really like for women traveling in covered wagons by way of overland trails during the westward migration of the nineteenth century and the effects it had on them and their families throughout their journey to a new and unknown world. Original.
Author : Kenneth L. Holmes
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 50,82 MB
Release : 2014-10-20
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0806183020
The diaries and letters of women on the overland trails in the mid- to late nineteenth century are treasured documents. These eleven selections drawn from the multivolume Covered Wagon Women series present the best first-person trail accounts penned by women in their teens who traveled west between 1846 and 1898. Ranging in age from eleven to nineteen, unmarried and without children of their own, these diarists had experiences different from those of older women who carried heavier responsibilities with them on the trail. These letters and diaries reflect both the unique perspective of youthful optimism and the experiences common among all female emigrants. The young women write of friendship and family, trail hardships, and explorations such as visits to Indian gravesites. Some like Sallie Hester even write of enjoying the company of men, and many speculate about marriage prospects. Domestic roles did not define the girls’ trail experience; only the four oldest in this collection recorded helping with chores. As they journey through Indian lands, these writers show that even their youth did not prevent them from holding notions of white racial superiority. Two of the selections are newly published, having appeared only in limited-distribution collector’s editions of the original series. For all readers captivated by the first Best of Covered Wagon Women collection, this new volume’s focus on youthful travelers adds a fresh perspective to life on the trail.
Author : Kenneth L. Holmes
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 12,79 MB
Release : 1995-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780803272910
In 1852 a record number of women helped keep the wagons rolling over the perilous western trails. The fourth volume of Covered Wagon Women is devoted to families headed for California that year. Diaries and letters of six pioneer women describe the rigors en route, trailside celebrations and tragedies, the scourge of cholera, and encounters with the Indians.