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Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2017]
Description
"Westward ho! If you travel across certain parts of the United States, you can still see wagon wheel ruts where people crossed the west in search of more opportunity and better lives more than 200 years ago! The Oregon Trail: The Journey Across the Country from Lewis and Clark to the Transcontinental Railroad offers readers ages 9 to 12 a fascinating look at the explorers and settlers who traveled this route during the westward expansion of the United...
Author
Series
Oregon Trail volume 5
Pub. Date
[2019]
Description
"It's 1849. You and your family are at the halfway mark on your 2,000-mile journey West. You've set up camp near South Pass, Wyoming. A powerful storm strikes. Your wagon train must ford the river immediately. When crossing the wild water, the current pulls you in and separates you from your family. You wake up on a riverbank--lost and disoriented. You have no other choice by to find your way and survive on your own. Lucky for you, you meet Tatsa,...
Author
Pub. Date
c2008
Description
In 1843, Kate Winfield is among the first of what will be eventually 300,000 Americans who will travel thousands of miles up the Oregon Trail in search of a better life. Through perilous river crossings, blistering heat, choking dust clouds, freezing nights, and the tragic passing of her mother, Kate grows up emotionally and spiritually and begins to dream of becoming a medical missionary to the Inidians. But that dream is challenged when a plauge...
Pub. Date
c2002
Description
Four noteworthy authors of Christian romance fiction join together to recreate life--and love--on the Oregon Trail.
Each author takes a leg of the journey and intertwines their story with the characters and events of the other stories while developing a new romance plot. Watch as Bethany starts the journey with a letter of proposal, a trousseau-laden trunk, and a heart full of hopes to make a first home out of The Wedding Wagon. Roll along toward...
91) Settler's hope
Author
Series
Western dreams volume 2
Pub. Date
c2020.
Description
After years of wandering, Pace Williams expects to find a home in the Oregon Country. He doesn't expect to fall in love with a fiery Irishwoman bent on returning home to avenge her people. Oona Moriarty expects one thing: to exact revenge on the English overlords who took her home. She doesn't expect to fall in love with a man who looks like he's been carved from this Western landscape. Together they vow to trust the unexpected and settle into a life,...
98) Little Big Man
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Description
Jack Crab, who is 111 years-old, discusses his life as a White man and as a Cheyenne Indian.
Author
Series
Oregon Trail volume 3
Pub. Date
[2018]
Description
A family must survive the dangerous ford of the wild Snake River along the Oregon Trail, in a book where the reader's choices determine the outcome of the expedition.
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