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21) The Oregon Trail
Author
Series
Pub. Date
c2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.4 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Discusses the people and history of the Oregon Trail.
23) The Oregon Trail
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 1
Description
This book describes the wagon route that settlers took to Oregon Territory and the dangers of traveling west.
24) The Oregon Trail
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Pub. Date
c2010
Description
"Take a 2,000-mile journey with the pioneers that braved The Oregon Trail ... See rare photos, hear diary excerpts and watch stunning footage in this award-winning film, previously viewed on public television"--container.
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Pub. Date
c2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 5
Description
In his 1845 diary, thirteen-year-old orphan Jedediah describes his wagon train journey to Oregon, in which he confronts rivers and sandy plains, bears and rattlesnakes, and the challenges of living with his fellow travelers. Includes historical notes.
27) The Oregon Trail
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.2 - AR Pts: 1
Description
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.
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Elizabeth Martin and her two children have made it through the easy part of their journey, but their wagon train still faces dangers. Will Bramford, a wealthy widower, is pursuing Elizabeth; Eli Kincade, the independent and solitary guide, has stolen Elizabeth's heart. When the group reaches the Oregon Country, Elizabeth and Will and their families have made arrangements to board a ship that will take them south along the coast. Will Eli change his...
30) A Sudden Country
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James MacLaren's life is overturned in the winter of 1846, when his Nez Perce wife deserts him and his children die of smallpox. In the grip of a profound sorrow, MacLaren, whose home once spanned a continent, sets out to find his wife. But an act of secret vengeance changes his course, introducing him to a different wife and mother: Lucy Mitchell, journeying westward with her family. Lucy, a remarried widow, careful mother, and reluctant emigrant,...
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Pub. Date
[2013].
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 11
Description
During a thirteen hundred mile journey from Kansas to the Bitterroot Mountains, Caleb O'Toole faces deserts, tornadoes, wolves, and the infamous Blackstone Gang as he tries to honor his promise to his dying mother and keep his sisters safe.
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Pub. Date
[2020]
Description
"15-year-old Zeke is thrilled to be heading west with over eighty settlers on the famed Oregon Trail. But when their wagon train takes an ill-advised short cut, the pioneers find themselves trapped in a frozen mountain pass. As howling winter storms rage around the Donner Party, there’s no way forward or back. Faced with starvation, Zeke must attempt to walk out of the wilderness on sheer willpower alone. Can he ever hope to make it to California?...
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""In one very real sense," David Lavender writes, "the story of the Oregon Trail begins with Columbus." This opening suggests the panoramic sweep of his history of that famous trail. In chiseled, colorful prose, Lavender illustrates the "westward vision" that impelled the early explorers of the American interior looking for a northwest passage and send fur trappers into the region charted by Lewis and Clark. For the emigrants following the trappers'...
Author
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Thousands of American settlers endured the long trip of more than 2,000 miles between Missouri and Oregon in the mid-1800s. Would you rather run out of food supplies or spare wagon parts? Would you ford the river and get across faster but risk your wagon overturning? It's your turn to pick this or that!
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 2
Description
In 1851 twelve-year-old Sarah is a free Black, happy living with her parents, grandparents, and brother on their own farm in Iowa; but her father has been bitten by the gold bug and wants to take the trail west to California, and after some argument it is decided that the the grandparents will stay on the farm, but the rest of the family will go; the journey will be difficult and dangerous, but if they survive extreme weather, difficult terrain, illness,...