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1) A frontier fort on the Oregon Trail

Author

Steedman, Scott

Series

Inside story

Language

English

Description

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Describes life in a frontier fort on America's Great Plains during the 19th century, using cutaway illustrations to provide insight into the challenges faced by the pioneers.

2) Trouble for Lucy

Author

Stevens, Carla

Publisher

Houghton Mifflin/Clarion Books

Pub. Date

c1979

Language

English

Description

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As she and her family travel the Oregon Trail in 1843, Lucy's puppies persist in creating trouble.

3) Westward on the Oregon Trail

Publisher

Harper & Row

Pub. Date

c1962

Language

English

4) The Oregon Trail

Author

Fisher, Leonard Everett

Publisher

Holiday House

Pub. Date

c1990

Language

English

Description

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Charts the journey of those who followed the Oregon Trail in the first half of the nineteenth century, describes the obstacles and dangers they encountered, and discusses the Trail's eventual decline with the introduction of the cross-country railroad.

5) Roughing it on the Oregon Trail

Author

Stanley, Diane

Series

Time-traveling twins volume 1

Language

English

Description

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Twins Liz and Lenny, along with their time-traveling grandmother, join a group of pioneers journeying west on the Oregon Trail in 1843.

6) I'm sorry, Almira Ann

Author

Kurtz, Jane

Language

English

Description

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Eight-year-old Sarah's high spirits help make her family's long journey from Missouri to Oregon more bearable, though they do cause both her and her best friend Almira Ann some problems. Sarah Benton and her family set off on a journey westward, following the Oregon Trail. Sarah's best friend, Almira Ann, is on the trail, too. But the journey sours when Sarah unintentionally scares Almira Ann, causing her to fall out of the wagon and break her leg....