"Read about how over half a million men, woman and children risked their lives and traveled west on the Oregon Trail in hopes for a better future"--Provided by publisher.
Photographs and easy-to-follow text introduce children to how people lived in the past and how various aspects of their community might differ from communities in the past.
Charlie Keller must prove that he can help his mother and sisters survive a Kansas blizzard while his father helps the free-soil settlers in Lawrence to defend their town from proslavery forces.
In 1874 eleven-year-old Sam and his family move from Kentucky to the southern Dakota Territory, where harsh conditions and a plague of hungry grasshoppers threaten their chances for survival.
A brief biography of Daniel Boone, in graphic novel format, that discusses his childhood, hunting skills, experiences with Native Americans, role in settling Kentucky, and more.
Schooled in the lessons of etiquette for young ladies of 1854, Miss Jane Peck of Philadelphia finds little use for manners during her long sea voyage to the Pacific Northwest and while living among the American traders and Chinook Indians of Washington Territory.
As the only girl in a Finnish American family of seven brothers, May Amelia Jackson resents being expected to act like a lady while growing up in Washington state in 1899.
