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Rachel's journal

the story of a pioneer girl
2001
In her journal, Rachel chronicles her family's adventures traveling by covered wagon on the Oregon Trail in 1850.

A pioneer woman's memoir

1995
A direct look into the pioneer lives of those who travelled the Oregon Trail during the 1800s.

A frontier fort on the Oregon Trail

1993
Describes life in a frontier fort on America's Great Plains during the 19th century, using cutaway illustrations to provide insight into the challenges faced by the pioneers.

The stout-hearted seven

orphaned on the Oregon Trail
2006
Recounts the adventures of the seven Sager children, orphaned during their journey to Oregon where they were adopted by Marcus and Narcissa Whitman.

Across the wide and lonesome prairie

the Oregan Trail diary of Hattie Campbell
1997
In her diary, thirteen-year-old Hattie chronicles her family's arduous 1847 journey from Missouri to Oregon on the Oregon Trail.

How I survived the Oregon Trail

the journal of Jesse Adams
1999
A young boy keeps a journal describing his family's five-month journey across country in a covered wagon. Each entry includes a game, recipe, or other related activity.

The Oregon Trail and westward expansion

a history perspectives book
2014
Shares the details of the Oregon Trail and the United States westward expansion in the 1800s and provides multiple accounts of the event, and readers learn details through the point of view of a pioneer, a Native American in a territory crossed by the trail, and a U.S. soldier at a government outpost.

Wagons West

off to Oregon
1984
Two children travel with their older brother across the country by wagon train from Virginia to the Oregon Territory.

When pioneers pushed west to Oregon

1970
Recreates, from actual diaries, the trek of the 1843 Oregon Emigration Company across the 2000 mile stretch of desert and plain now called the Oregon Trail.

Courage on the Oregon Trail

2003
Presents a fictional story about a nineteenth-century family's trek along the Oregon Trail, and describes the challenges and dangers people faced on the journey, presenting photos of real families.

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