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Language
English
Description
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....
Author
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
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Description
"When sixteen-year-old Matt Logan and his friend Danny Dugan ran away from an orphanage, they went west. There, they met Jim Bridger, among other mountain men, and became fur trappers. But the market for beaver plews died out, and the two friends took on jobs as wagon train guides. They eventually separated, hoping to meet again. One of the trains Matt picks up in Independence began its journey in St. Louis, led by widower Cody McNair. Cody was a...
23) The lost wagon
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
The Lost Wagon is the starkly honest representation of one man's hope of finding a better life for his family. Deeply in debt and worried that his children will be forced to struggle all their lives to make ends meet, Joe hears stories of free land in Oregon and a better way of life. The tale of the "promised land" does not move his wife Emma to support their leaving all they have behind until a catastrophe leaves them no other choice. Intimate and...
Author
Series
Retta Barre's Oregon Trail volume 3
Publisher
Crossway Books
Pub. Date
2002
Language
English
Description
In 1852 on the Oregon Trail, twelve-year-old Retta keeps her family safe from prairie raiders and a band of Sioux as they spend a few days away from the wagon train during her mother's illness.
Author
Series
Retta Barre's Oregon Trail volume 2
Publisher
Crossway Books
Pub. Date
2002
Language
English
Description
On the Oregon Trail in 1852, twelve-year-old Retta helps negotiate with a renegade Arapaho when he captures her new Shoshone friend, Shy Bear, and a girl from the wagon train, then she faces a wounded buffalo.
Author
Publisher
Ashberry Lane
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Upon the death of her mother, Emmalind Hammond's life changes drastically. She finds out she is not the heiress she'd believed herself to be and her fiancé breaks their engagement as a result. Then she discovers her father, who died long ago, is actually very much alive and is rumored to live in the Oregon Territory. Since there's not much left of her life in Philadelphia, she and her uncle set out on the Oregon Trail, relying on help from young...
Author
Series
Time-traveling twins volume 1
Language
English
Description
Twins Liz and Lenny, along with their time-traveling grandmother, join a group of pioneers journeying west on the Oregon Trail in 1843.
32) Daniel's walk
Author
Publisher
H. Holt
Pub. Date
2004, c2001
Language
English
Description
With little more than a bedroll, a change of clothes, and a Bible, fourteen-year-old Daniel LeBlanc begins walking the Oregon Trail in search of his father who, according to a mysterious visitor, is in big trouble and needs his son's help.
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic, Inc
Pub. Date
2012, 2012, c1997
Language
English
Description
In her diary, thirteen-year-old Hattie chronicles her family's arduous 1847 journey from Missouri to Oregon on the Oregon Trail. In a diary format, this novel chronicles the hardships that pioneers endured during a trip west on the Oregon Trail.
Author
Series
Horse diaries volume 3
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
Traveling with his owners from Missouri to Oregon in 1848, Koda, an energetic two-year-old quarter horse, finds the long journey increasingly tedious and tiring until his young owner goes missing on the trail and he must use all his skills to find her.
Author
Publisher
Wolfpack Publishing
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Young but determined, the man of the family too soon, Jake Zane comes of age with the help of a massive mute escaped slave. It's conquer the wilderness, protect your mother and sisters, or die trying. A grueling challenge...2,000 miles of rutted trail with little or no civilization, no water or far too much, wild animals, wicked weather, and savages both red and white. The good news: you have family and friends, and hundreds more making the trip....
36) Koda
Author
Series
Horse diaries volume 3
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
Traveling with his owners from Missouri to Oregon in 1848, Koda, an energetic two-year-old quarter horse, finds the long journey increasingly tedious and tiring until his young owner goes missing on the trail and he must use all his skills to find her.
