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Here, from the pages of old diaries and journals, is the story of the Santa Fe Trail. The great Conestogas carried hearty pionees into dangers, hardships, and unknown challenges.

Relates the ordeals faced by a group of pioneers on their journey from Illinois to California in 1846.

The true-life saga of the Henry Sager family, who left their home in 1843 for the fertile land of frontier Oregon. Seven Alone is an inspiring saga of heroism and a family's perseverance in the rugged Old West. On a harrowing 2,000 mile trek across America from Missouri to the Oregon coast, the death of their parents leaves these gallant youngsters alone and facing nearly certain death. Showing unbelievable courage, they decide to press on to fulfill...

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....

The Santa Fe Trail was one of the great commercial routes across the West, frequented more by merchants than by emigrants. Hence women travelers were few on the Santa Fe Trail, and Land of Enchantment is one of the few firsthand accounts by a woman of life on the trail. The author, Marian Russell (1845-1936), dictated her story to her daughter-in-law in the 1930s. Published in a limited edition in 1954 and highly praised by scholars, that edition...

Whip Holt leads a caravan of courageous men and women whose determination to carve a new life in the frontier of early-nineteenth-century America is tested by inhospitable terrain, the elements, and hostile Indians.

Bernie Harberts and his mule and pony (Woody and Maggie) walked across America and describe what they found unusual about each state they visited.