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Across The Wide And Lonesome Prairie

The Oregon Trail Diary Of Hattie Campbell

by Kristiana Gregory

Hattie, her parents, and her two younger brothers begin the long trek from Missouri to Oregon by wagon train. At first the adventure is exciting, but as the days, weeks, and months pass, Hattie realizes what a dangerous and tedious trip it will be. They cross the prairies, hastening the journey as news of the fate of the Donner party reaches them, but death, disease, weather, and the terrain take a terrible toll.... (more)

The Way West

by A. B. Guthrie

An enormously entertaining classic, THE WAY WEST brings to life the adventure of the western passage and the pioneer spirit. The sequel to THE BIG SKY, this celebrated novel charts a frontiersman's return to the untamed West in 1846. Dick Summers, as pilot of a wagon train, guides a group of settlers on the difficult journey from Missouri to Oregon. In sensitive but unsentimental prose, Guthrie illuminates the... (more)

The Journal of Jedediah Barstow, an Emigrant on The Oregon Trail

My Name Is America

The Journal of Jedediah Barstow, an Emigrant on The Oregon Trail

by Ellen Levine

Having lost his parents and younger sister wen they tried to ford a river along the Oregon Trail, Jedediah Barstow decides to make his way to the Oregon Territory on his own. He is "adopted" by the Henshaw family, who allow him to travel in their wagon in exchange for his help with the daily maintenance work along the way. Jedediah's adventures, along with the friends he makes and lessons he learns, make for an... (more)

Coleman Family Saga: Book 1

Sunset Embrace

by Sandra Brown

Russet-haired, sensuous Lydia and proud, dangerous Ross Coleman are both running from the past. But thrust together on a slow-moving wagon train, they will soon be pulled into a maelstrom of danger and desire. A sizzling romance reissued to coincide with Sandra Brown's new romance Mirror Image. Reissue.

Blood and Thunder: An Epic of the American West

Blood and Thunder: An Epic of the American West

by Hampton Sides

Praise for Blood and Thunder “Kit Carson’s role in the conquest of the Navajo during and after the Civil War remains one of the most dramatic and significant episodes in the history of the American West. Hampton Sides portrays Carson in the larger context of the conquest of the entire West, including his frequent and often lethal encounters with hostile Native Americans. Unusually, Sides gives full voice to... (more)

AmandaCandice F. Ransom

Amanda

by Candice Ransom

Independence

by Dana Fuller Ross

All Together in One Place (Kinship and Courage)

All Together in One Place (Kinship and Courage)

by Jane Kirkpatrick

One of the incidents that made a profound impression upon the minds of all: the meeting of eleven wagons returning and not a man left in the entire train; all had died, and been buried on the way, and the women returning alone. --from the journals of Ezra Meeker, 1852 THEIR LIVES WOULD BE TEMPERED BY ADVERSITY, EXPANDED BY FAITH, POLISHED BY PERSEVERANCE-- ... (more)

The Oregon Trail (Penguin American Library)

The Oregon Trail (Penguin American Library)

by Francis Parkman

The Oregon Trail traces a journey into the heart of the American Plains by Francis Parkman, who undertook his 1846 expedition in order to document the vanishing frontier; his keen observations and vivid style quickly established his reputation. Parkman depicts the hardships of travel across mountains and prairies, sketching vibrant portraits of his encounters with other sojourners as well as Western wildlife.... (more)

THE PILGRIMAGEAnn B. Ross

THE PILGRIMAGE

by Ann B. Ross

Jessie and Emma Heath, orphaned sisters from Missouri who connect for a time with the Donner Party, are irrepressible survivors in this engaging account of this life along the Oregon Trail in 1846. Told mainly by Emma, the 12-year-old, tomboyish younger sister whose goal is to settle on a farm, the story centers on beautiful 17-year-old Jessie. Bent on Christianizing the Indians, Jessie girds her loins with... (more)

The Story of Jonas

by Maurine F. Dahlberg

Jonas has lived all of his thirteen years on a farm in Missouri, and even though he hears whispers about freedom, he thinks he’ll never try to escape. He knows what happens to slaves who attempt to run away. Besides, Master William has promised to make Jonas his personal manservant, and Jonas thinks fine suits and special privileges sound like a dream. But this dream is put on hold when, in 1859, Master William’s... (more)

Quest Books: The Stouthearted Seven: Orphaned on the Oregon Trail

Quest Books: The Stouthearted Seven: Orphaned on the Oregon Trail

by Neta Lohnes Frazier

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 adventure-filled journey. Tragedy struck when both the mother and father succumbed to fever, orphaning the youngsters—one just a newborn. The entire wagon train adopted them,... (more)

Scarlet Thread - Special Edition

by Rivers, Francine Rivers

Narcissa Whitman: An historical biography

Narcissa Whitman: An historical biography

by Opal Sweazea Allen

Wagon West #02: Nebraska (Wagons West)

by Dana Fuller Ross

Way West 1ST EditionJr. A. B. Guthrie

Way West 1ST Edition

by Jr. A. B. Guthrie

Desperate Passage: The Donner Party's Perilous Journey West

Desperate Passage: The Donner Party's Perilous Journey West

by Ethan Rarick

In late October 1846, the last wagon train of that year's westward migration stopped overnight before resuming its arduous climb over the Sierra Nevada Mountains, unaware that a fearsome storm was gathering force. After months of grueling travel, the 81 men, women and children would be trapped for a brutal winter with little food and only primitive shelter. The conclusion is known: by spring of the next year, the... (more)

Facing West: A Story of the Oregon Trail (Once Upon America)

Facing West: A Story of the Oregon Trail (Once Upon America)

by Kathleen V. Kudlinski, James Watling

In 1845, Ben and his family join a wagon train making its way from Missouri to Oregon, but asthma threatens his new life.

Tucket Adventures

Mr. Tucket

by Gary Paulsen

Fourteen-year-old Francis Tucket is heading west on the Oregon Trail with his family by wagon train. When he receives a rifle for his birthday, he is thrilled that he is being treated like an adult. But Francis lags behind to practice shooting and is captured by Pawnees. It will take wild horses, hostile tribes, and a mysterious one-armed mountain man named Mr. Grimes to help Francis become the man who will be... (more)

A Heart for Any Fate: Westward to Oregon, 1845

A Heart for Any Fate: Westward to Oregon, 1845

by Linda Crew

Its 1964, and Abraham Lincolns daughter, Sarah, daydreams about meeting her father. Her mother, Joan, met Lincoln nine years earlier when he was transported to Evanston, Illinois, from his own time and place for a day. When Sarahs stepfather, Will, a Lincoln scholar, doesnt return home from an overnight trip, Sarah and her mother have no way of knowing that he has traveled back in time to 1833 in the same... (more)

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The Oregon Trail Diary Of Hattie Campbell

by Kristiana Gregory

by A. B. Guthrie

by Ellen Levine

by Sandra Brown

by Hampton Sides

by Candice Ransom

by Dana Fuller Ross

by Jane Kirkpatrick

by Francis Parkman

by Ann B. Ross

by Maurine F. Dahlberg

by Neta Lohnes Frazier

by Rivers, Francine Rivers

by Opal Sweazea Allen

by Dana Fuller Ross

by Jr. A. B. Guthrie

by Ethan Rarick

by Kathleen V. Kudlinski, James Watling

by Gary Paulsen

by Linda Crew