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English
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This book introduces kids to the adventures of a young girl named Olivia who keeps a diary as her family travels from Missouri along the famous Oregon Trail. It is a motivating introduction to using essential nonfiction reading skills, proving ideal for children ready to enter the riveting world of reading.
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Publisher
Sterling
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
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Based on a true story originally written by one of the survivors, Neta Lohnes Frazier' s account of seven children traveling westward still has the power to astonish. In the 1840s, the Sager family set off on the Oregon Trail, a dangerous and adventure-filled journey. Tragedy struck when both the mother and father succumbed to fever, orphaning the youngsters- one just a newborn. The entire wagon train adopted them, until they arrived at the Whitman...
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Puffin Books
Pub. Date
1997, ©1994
Language
English
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In 1853, the Larkin family loaded up their wagon and headed west in search of a new life. But how did they do it? What did they eat? How did they survive sickness, and attacks from cattle thieves? Drawing on diaries and letters, illustrated with photographs of actual objects from the past, this book explores what life was like on the wagon trail.
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Penguin Workshop
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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"In the winter of 1846-47, a group of eighty-seven pioneers heading from the Midwest to California found themselves snowbound in the Sierra Nevada mountain range with no way forward and no food or supplies. While forty-eight of the group members survived, the others perished due to extreme weather, starvation, and illness. To survive, the remaining people resorted to extreme measures . . . including cannibalism. Learn about the many miscalculations,...
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Publisher
Mountain Press Pub. Co
Pub. Date
©2000
Language
English
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Follow the heartaches, hardships, joys, and victories of life on the Emigrant Trail with the young unsung heroes of Stories of Young Pioneers: In Their Own Words. Violet Kimball has collected memoirs, letters, and journal entries of emigrants who were ages six to nineteen when they made the overland journey . Young historians ages ten to fifteen will find Stories of Young Pioneers not only entertaining reading but also a thorough and well-researched...
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Publisher
Lerner Publications
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
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In 1846, the eighty-seven members of the Donner Party left Illinois to begin a new life in California. Many pioneers made this journey, but the Donner Party faced delays and terrible misfortune. Trapped with few supplies in the snowy Sierra Nevada for the winter, what would the travelers do to survive? To understand the impact of a disaster, you must understand its causes. How did taking an untested shortcut affect the Donner Party's progress? How...
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