Author : Weldon W. Rau
Publisher :
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 45,38 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN :
The 1852 overland migration was the largest on record, with numbers swelled by Oregon-bound settlers as well as hordes of gold-seekers destined for California. It also was a year in which cholera took a terrible toll in lives. Included here are firsthand accounts of this fateful year, including the words and thoughts of a young married couple, Mary Ann and Willis Boatman.
Author : Rebecca Stefoff
Publisher : Enslow Publishing, LLC
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 37,23 MB
Release : 2012-01-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0766046796
In the nineteenth century, over half a million men, women and children traveled west on the Oregon Trail. Stretching two thousand miles from Independence Missouri, to the Pacific Northwest, the Oregon Trail was the longest overland route used in the westward expansion. Crossing mountains and deserts, fighting disease, short of both food and water, pioneers endured many hardships to follow the trail west with their hopes and dreams of seeking fortunes in the unsettled west. Author Rebecca Stefoff traces the roots of the Oregon and California Trails back to the seventeenth century, telling the stories of those who left the security and comfort of their homes, to endure months of hard travel in the hope of a new life.
Author : Jeri Freedman
Publisher : Cavendish Square Publishing, LLC
Page : 34 pages
File Size : 17,50 MB
Release : 2015-12-15
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1502610752
The Oregon Trail was an important part of American history. It helped bring new people to the western United States. Explore what life was like for pioneers on the Oregon Trail, what difficulties they faced along the way, and what it was like to live in Oregon once they arrived. Complete with vivid photographs, a glossary, and colorful designs, this is an excellent way to introduce readers to Americas early westward expansion.
Author : Kristin Marciniak
Publisher : Cherry Lake
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 42,91 MB
Release : 2013-08-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1624314570
This book relays the factual details of the Oregon Trail and the United States' westward expansion in the 1800s. The narrative provides multiple accounts of the event, and readers learn details through the point of view of a pioneer, a Native American in a territory crossed by the trail, and a U.S. soldier at a government outpost. The text offers opportunities to compare and contrast various perspectives in the text while gathering and analyzing information about an historical event.
Author : Rinker Buck
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 24,42 MB
Release : 2015-06-30
Category : History
ISBN : 1451659164
A new American journey.
Author : Dennis M. Larsen
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 42,87 MB
Release : 2020
Category :
ISBN : 9781636820316
"Much has been written about Ezra Meeker, most of it by Meeker himself. Despite the paper trail he left behind, no one has yet written his comprehensive biography. In this, the last of three volumes on Meeker, Larsen examines the pioneer's most enduring legacy-his grand and much publicized promotion of the Oregon Trail"--.
Author : Rebecca Stefoff
Publisher : Enslow Publishing, LLC
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 29,74 MB
Release : 2012-01-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 146460469X
In the nineteenth century, over half a million men, women and children traveled west on the Oregon Trail. Stretching two thousand miles from Independence Missouri, to the Pacific Northwest, the Oregon Trail was the longest overland route used in the westward expansion. Crossing mountains and deserts, fighting disease, short of both food and water, pioneers endured many hardships to follow the trail west with their hopes and dreams of seeking fortunes in the unsettled west. Author Rebecca Stefoff traces the roots of the Oregon and California Trails back to the seventeenth century, telling the stories of those who left the security and comfort of their homes, to endure months of hard travel in the hope of a new life.
Author : Ezra Meeker
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 49,17 MB
Release : 2022-08-10
Category : Travel
ISBN :
'Ox-Team Days on the Oregon Trail' is a book written by Ezra Meeker about his experience traveling the Oregon Trail by ox-drawn wagon as a young man, migrating from Iowa to the Pacific Coast. Later on in his life, Meeker became convinced that the Oregon Trail was being forgotten, and he determined to bring it publicity so it could be marked and monuments erected. In 1906–1908, while in his late 70s, he retraced his steps along the Oregon Trail by wagon, seeking to build monuments in communities along the way. His trek reached New York City, and in Washington, D.C., he met President Theodore Roosevelt. He traveled the Trail again several times in the final two decades of this life, including by oxcart in 1910–1912 and by airplane in 1924.
Author : Francis Parkman
Publisher :
Page : 542 pages
File Size : 15,33 MB
Release : 1898
Category : California National Historic Trail
ISBN :
Author : David Klausmeyer
Publisher : Falcon Guides
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 36,3 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Frontier and pioneer life
ISBN : 9780762730827
Travel along the Oregon Trail with the pioneers who dared to "face the elephant" as they moved west in search of a new life. Compiled from the trail diaries and memoirs that document this momentous period in American history, Oregon Trail Stories is a fascinating look at the great American migration of the 19th century.
