Covered Wagon Women, Volume 5: Diaries and Letters from the Western Trails, 1852: The Oregon Trail, Paperback - Kenneth Holmes

Reducere. Abigail Jane Scott was seventeen when she left Illinois with her family in the spring of 1852. Her record of the journey west is full of expressive...

Reducere. The wagon trains to California greatly decreased in 1851 as reports of deadly cholera on the trail the year before and strikeouts in gold prospecti...

Reducere. 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 yo...

Reducere. 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 yo...

Reducere. In their simplicity is their poignancy. On August 7, 1865, Mary Louisa Black noted in her journal that they were "nooning on a nice stream in a val...

Reducere. "We traveled this forenoon over the roughest and most desolate piece of ground that was ever made, " wrote Amelia Knight during her 1853 wagon trai...

Reducere. The diaries and letters of women on the overland trails in the mid- to late nineteenth century are treasured documents. These eleven selections dra...

Reducere. "We pray the God of mercy to deliver us from our present Calamity, " wrote Patrick Breen on the first day of 1847 as he and others in the Donner pa...

Reducere. Travel along the Oregon Trail with the pioneers who dared to "face the elephant" as they moved west in search of a new life. Compiled from the trai...

Reducere. Jane's trapped in her middle school computer lab playing "The Oregon Trail" for what feels like hours. The game becomes life and rips us back to th...

Reducere. DescriptionIn Women's Voices from the Oregon Trail, Susan Butruille artfully narrates the lives and struggles of the women who followed the 2, 000-...

Reducere. On April 28, 1846, Francis Parkman left Saint Louis on his first expedition west. The Oregon Trail documents his adventures in the wilderness, shed...

Reducere. A five-star masterpiece from best-selling author Robert Vaughan. When sixteen-year-old Matt Logan and his friend Danny Duggan run away from an orph...

Reducere. DescriptionIn this boxed set, choose your own trail and complete the journey to Oregon City with all four paperbacks in this exciting series It's 1...

Reducere. In 1847, Caleb "Mac" McDougall, a young Bostonian, seeks adventure on the Oregon Trail. As he passes through Missouri, he rescues Jenny Calhoun, a ...

Reducere. Resurrecting a pivotal moment in American history, Across the Great Divide tells the triumphant never-before-told story of the young Scottish fur t...

From the start, women were central to a century of westward migration in the U.S. Community Building and Early Public Relations: Pioneer Women's Ro...

Reducere. At the sound of the bell on the last day of kindergarten, B.J. Hollars and his six-year-old son, Henry, hop in the car to strike out on a 2, 500-mi...

Reducere. They knew the trip would be difficult, but they didn't bargain on hell.The shout "giddap" starts the oxen down a path to the end of the world. For ...

Reducere. The Shirley Letters, written from the mining camps in 1851 and 1852, are something valuable and rare -- a portrait by a woman of an era dominated b...

Reducere. A quirky, nostalgic send-up to the Oregon Trail computer game, featuring snarky and hard-earned life lessons from the trail. Pack your wagons, find...

In 1853, a wagon train camped in the Eastern Oregon desert 130 miles from the Oregon Trail. Uncertain of their whereabouts and in desperate need of...

Reducere. In 1851, 12-year-old orphan Austin Ives joins a wagon train headed for California. As he makes his way across the country, Austin writes home to hi...

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Reducere. Meet Ranger He's a time-traveling golden retriever who has a nose for trouble . . . and always saves the day Ranger has been trained as a search-an...

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Reducere. If you have taken even a short walk on any beach in Oregon, you have been on the Oregon Coast Trail. This wonderfully scenic and diverse trail exte...

Reducere. This book covers one of the major overland trails in the U S. You will be able to rely on this book for information about the Santa Fe Trail with m...

Reducere. You're living in the United States during the time of the Westward Expansion. Settlers are heading west on the Oregon Trail as they seek better liv...

Reducere. Bicycling is becoming an ever-more popular option as some national parks are closing roads to cars. This complete adventure guide to the national p...

During the mid-nineteenth century, a quarter of a million travelers - men, women, and children - followed the 'road across the plains' to gold rush...

Reducere. - Inspirational full-color guides with over 150 color photographs in each Hiking the Pacific Crest Trail: Oregon is written by Eli Boschetto. A hik...

Reducere. Thousands of American settlers endured the long trip of more than 2, 000 miles between Missouri and Oregon in the mid-1800s. They were determined t...

The Sager orphans were the seven children of Henry and Naomi Sager. In April 1844 the Sager family took part in the great westward migration and st...

Reducere. From bestselling author Ralph Compton-an extraordinary saga of the hard-driving Texans who locked horns with a ruthless railroad baron in a bloody ...

Popular author and veteran novelist combine their talents to help readers discover firsthand what it was like to encounter Jesus and his life-chang...

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DescriptionOliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., has been called the greatest jurist and legal scholar in the history of the English-speaking world. In this ...

Reducere. DescriptionThe informative and easy-to-read children's story is narrated by Ollie, the ox pulling the covered wagon over the 2, 000-mile Oregon Tra...

Reducere. The Cape Cod Bike Book is written from an "insider's" view, by a local resident who knows all the ins and outs of Cape Cod, all the back roads, and...