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Explores the Santa Fe, Oregon-California, and Mormon trails as well as the routes into the American West forged by Lewis and Clark, the Pony Express, and the transcontinental telegraph and railroad, looking at the lives of the people who made the dangerous trek and the settlements that sprang up along the way.
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Pub. Date
2017.
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This book beautifully captures the triumphs and tribulations of ten women who crossed the American frontier by wagon. While their stories are widely different, each of these remarkable women was inspiring, courageous, and resourceful. The legacy of their letters and diaries, most written on the trail, is a fascinating addition to the understanding of the history of the West.
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1997
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Offers profiles of a collection of mountain men of the early nineteenth century--a group of adventurers who sought individual freedom and financial reward as beaver trappers in the Rocky Mountains--and discusses their contributions to the opening of the American West.
31) The Oregon Trail
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 1
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Tells the story of the legendary trail, the mountain men who blazed the way, and the missionaries who followed.
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[2024]
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"Life on a wagon train was tough. Travelers wore through their shoes from so much walking. They left behind belongings along the trail when they could no longer carry them. Many didn't make it to their destination. This book engages readers with a familiar historical time period through surprising facts as was as curriculum-supporting social studies information. Historical images correlate with the main content, aiding in comprehension and providing...
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Pub. Date
2007.
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In 1849 news of the discovery of gold in California triggered an enormous wave of emigration toward the Pacific. Lured by the promise of riches, thousands of settlers left behind the forests, rain, and fertile soil of the eastern United States in favor of the rough-hewn lands of the American West. The dramatic terrain they struggled to cross is so familiar to us now that it is hard to imagine how frightening--even godforsaken--its sheer rock faces...
34) The Oregon Trail
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Pub. Date
[2001]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 1
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An introductory history of the Oregon Trail and its significance in opening the west to settlers, including information on the people who opened the Trail, their reasons for going west, modes of transportation, and a description of a typical day on the Trail.
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A chronicle of the mid-nineteenth-century wagon train tragedy draws on the perspectives of one of its survivors, Sarah Graves, recounting how her new husband and she joined the Donner party on their California-bound journey and encountered violent perils, in an account that also offers insight into the scientific reasons that some died while others survived.
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Pub. Date
1996
Description
The women who traveled west in covered wagons during the 1840s speak through these letters and diaries. Here are the voices of Tamsen Donner and young Virginia Reed, members of the ill-fated Donner party; Patty Sessions, the Mormon midwife who delivered five babies on the trail between Omaha and Salt Lake City; Rachel Fisher, who buried both her husband and her little girl before reaching Oregon. Still others make themselves heard, starting out from...
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