Central Kansas Library System

Red fury: The story of Frankie, a lost 10-year-old Indian boy who finds himself thrust into the bigotry of a turn-of the-century white community. Only one man has the heart and courage to give him a home. Only one woman, the school marm, stands up for him against the entire town. Against a Crooked Sky: Story of a young man's quest for his kidnapped sister--and ultimate challenge he must face to get her back. When Sam Isaac's sister is taken by a...

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...

A we celebrate the 150th anniversary of the opening of the Oregon Trail, western entertainer and poet, Red Steagall, takes us on a fact-filled voyage across the 2,000 mile route of America's Great Migration-- from Independence, Missouri to Independence, Oregon. Told through historic photographs and modern reenactments, this is the story of those courageous pioneers who, in the 1840's, ventured into an uncharted wilderness, toward an uncertain future,...

This book introduces kids to the adventures of a young girl named Olivia who keeps a diary as her family travels from Missouri along the famous Oregon Trail. It is a motivating introduction to using essential nonfiction reading skills, proving ideal for children ready to enter the riveting world of reading.

Tracing the trail and tracking down and writing about places of interest about women: landmarks, statues, signposts, markers, gravestones.

Describes the Oregon Trail and the pioneers who settled in the Pacific Northwest.

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.

In 1842, widower Evan Thorpe and his three children leave their Illinois farm and join a wagon train heading west into the Oregon Territories to make a new life for themselves. Along the way they must deal with Indian marauders, storms, con men and more.

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.