Life on the Oregon Trail

Life on the Oregon Trail

Author: Sally Senzell Isaacs

Publisher: Heinemann-Raintree Library

Published: 2000-07-01

Total Pages: 36

ISBN-13: 9781575723174

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An introduction to what life was like on the Oregon Trail, describing the wagons, daily routines, food, clothing, Native Americans encountered on the way, and dangers.


The Oregon Trail

The Oregon Trail

Author: Rinker Buck

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2015-06-30

Total Pages: 464

ISBN-13: 1451659164

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A new American journey.


Oregon Trail Stories

Oregon Trail Stories

Author: David Klausmeyer

Publisher: Falcon Guides

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780762730827

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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.


Life As a Pioneer on the Oregon Trail

Life As a Pioneer on the Oregon Trail

Author: Jeri Freedman

Publisher: Cavendish Square Publishing, LLC

Published: 2015-12-15

Total Pages: 34

ISBN-13: 1502610752

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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 America’s early westward expansion.


The Oregon Trail and Westward Expansion

The Oregon Trail and Westward Expansion

Author: Kristin Marciniak

Publisher: Cherry Lake

Published: 2013-08-01

Total Pages: 36

ISBN-13: 1624314570

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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.


The Oregon Trail

The Oregon Trail

Author: David Dary

Publisher: Knopf

Published: 2007-12-18

Total Pages: 432

ISBN-13: 0307429113

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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 international rivalry among Spain, Britain, Russia, and the United States, David Dary gives us the whole sweeping story of those who came to explore, to exploit, and, finally, to settle there. Using diaries, journals, company and expedition reports, and newspaper accounts, David Dary takes us inside the experience of the continuing waves of people who traveled the Oregon Trail or took its cutoffs to Utah, Nevada, Montana, Idaho, and California. He introduces us to the fur traders who set up the first “forts” as centers to ply their trade; the missionaries bent on converting the Indians to Christianity; the mountain men and voyageurs who settled down at last in the fertile Willamette Valley; the farmers and their families propelled west by economic bad times in the East; and, of course, the gold-seekers, Pony Express riders, journalists, artists, and entrepreneurs who all added their unique presence to the land they traversed. We meet well-known figures–John Jacob Astor, Marcus and Narcissa Whitman, John Frémont, the Donners, and Red Cloud, among others–as well as dozens of little-known men, women, and children who jotted down what they were seeing and feeling in journals, letters, or perhaps even on a rock or a gravestone. Throughout, Dary keeps us informed of developments in the East and their influence on events in the West, among them the building of the transcontinental railroad and the efforts of the far western settlements to become U.S. territories and eventually states. Above all, The Oregon Trail offers a panoramic look at the romance, colorful stories, hardships, and joys of the pioneers who made up this tremendous and historic migration.


Surviving the Oregon Trail, 1852

Surviving the Oregon Trail, 1852

Author: Weldon W. Rau

Publisher:

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 260

ISBN-13:

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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.


Bruff's Wake

Bruff's Wake

Author: Harold L. James

Publisher:

Published: 2011

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781893061088

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"Bruff's Wake tells the story of forty-niners who survived hardship with resolve and endurance. The accompanying illustrations, which include a number of Bruff's sketches paired with modern photographs taken at the same sites, give vivid depictions of life and death on the California Trail in 1849. In addition, Bruff's route is correlated to the geography of the modern era, so that the trail can be traced on modern maps. Taken together, the narrative, sketches, photographs, and geological descriptions of the terrain, coupled with generous quotes from Bruff's long-out-of-print journal, allow the reader to follow in Bruff's wake" -- Publisher's description, p. [4] of cover.