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Author | : Rachel Stuckey |
Publisher | : The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc |
Total Pages | : 34 |
Release | : 2015-07-15 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 1499412010 |
This book captures the excitement and hardship of settlers heading to the Wild West on wagon trains. Readers will delight in learning about the caravans of wagons that made their way through unsettled and wild land to make it to a place of new beginnings. This book describes the ways people prepared for their journeys on wagon trains, as well as what life was like on the trail. Brilliant visuals illustrate the book to bring this Wild West adventure to life. Information-rich text will engage readers as sidebars and “Truth or Myth?” fact boxes provide a dynamic and unforgettable reading experience.
Author | : Rachel Stuckey |
Publisher | : The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc |
Total Pages | : 34 |
Release | : 2015-07-15 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 1499411790 |
This book captures the excitement and hardship of settlers heading to the Wild West on wagon trains. Readers will delight in learning about the caravans of wagons that made their way through unsettled and wild land to make it to a place of new beginnings. This book describes the ways people prepared for their journeys on wagon trains, as well as what life was like on the trail. Brilliant visuals illustrate the book to bring this Wild West adventure to life. Information-rich text will engage readers as sidebars and “Truth or Myth?” fact boxes provide a dynamic and unforgettable reading experience.
Author | : Frank McLynn |
Publisher | : Open Road + Grove/Atlantic |
Total Pages | : 543 |
Release | : 2007-12-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0802199143 |
An acclaimed historian’s “compellingly told” year-by-year account of the pioneering efforts to conquer the American West in the mid-nineteenth century (The Guardian). In all the sagas of human migration, few can top the drama of the journey by Midwestern farmers to Oregon and California from 1840 to 1849—between the era of the fur trappers and the beginning of the gold rush. Even with mountain men as guides, these pioneers literally plunged into the unknown, braving all manner of danger, including hunger, thirst, disease, and drowning. Employing numerous illustrations and extensive primary sources, including original diaries and memoirs, McLynn underscores the incredible heroism and dangerous folly on the overland trails. His authoritative narrative investigates the events leading up to the opening of the trails, the wagons and animals used, the roles of women, relations with Native Americans, and much else. The climax arrives in McLynn’s expertly re-created tale of the dreadful Donner party, and he closes with Brigham Young and the Mormons beginning communities of their own. Full of high drama, tragedy, and triumph, “rarely has a book so wonderfully brought to life the riveting tales of Americans’ trek to the Pacific” (Publishers Weekly).
Author | : Glen Laws |
Publisher | : Xlibris Corporation |
Total Pages | : 165 |
Release | : 2014-11-11 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1499077122 |
This is the story of the emigrants following the Oregon Trail in the year of 1867. One of families is the Silas Martin family and daughter Mary who keeps a diary of events along the trail. Mary had two suitors during the trip-flamboyant John James Fairfield, 19-year-old son of Capt. Fairfield and James Monroe Cromwell, son of Rev. Cromwell. In the spring 1867, construction on the transcontinental railroad had reached Fort Kearney, Nebraska. Some emigrants were now using the railroad for their westward push. In early spring of 1867, Silas Martin joined 20 other emigrant wagons and 2 cargo wagons at Independence Missouri to begin their trek up the trail. Capt. Zeb Fairfield is the wagon master. Capt. Fairfield has a secret contract with the Army to bring 200 Spencer repeating rifles and $200,000 in gold to General Armstrong Custer bivouacked at Fort Hall by September. The first attack on the wagon train was by the Platte River by a remnant of the Quantrill Raiders and the Cole Younger gang. As the wagon train moved westward, it moved into an area known as the High Plains Indian Wars as designated by the Army. The Sioux and Arapahoe Indians joined forces to attack settlers and wagon trains. The first Indian attack was before Fort Laramie by a large number of Indians. Several emigrants were killed and several dozen Indians. A small Indian war party attacked emigrants in a broken down wagon with one emigrant killed and several Indians. At Fort Hall, four the wagons turn north to Fort Henry. The first days the wagons were accompanied by the Calvary due to an uprising by any Blackfoot Indians. On the third night, a Blackfoot Indian slipped into the camp and attempted to kill Mary.
Author | : Washington Irving |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 416 |
Release | : 1895 |
Genre | : Explorers |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Courtni Crump Wright |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1995 |
Genre | : African American pioneers |
ISBN | : 9780823411528 |
A chronicle of a black family's journey from Virginia to California in 1865 in search of a new kind of freedom provides a multicultural perspective on the settling of the American West.
Author | : Lansford Warren Hastings |
Publisher | : Applewood Books |
Total Pages | : 157 |
Release | : 1994 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1557092451 |
Published in 1845, this guidebook for pioneers is a reproduction of one of the most collectible books about California and the Western movement. It was the guidebook used by the Donner Party on their fateful journey. In addition, because Hastings' shortcut route through the Rockies produced such tragedy, the War Department commissioned The Prairie Traveler.
Author | : Lillian Schlissel |
Publisher | : Schocken |
Total Pages | : 289 |
Release | : 2011-08-03 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0307803171 |
An expanded edition of one of the most original and provocative works of American history of the last decade, which documents the pioneering experiences and grit of American frontier women.
Author | : Emerson Hough |
Publisher | : IndyPublish.com |
Total Pages | : 272 |
Release | : 2007-12-01 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9781435375475 |
"The Covered Wagon" is one of the classic sagas of the American West--a fictionalized account of wagon trains traveling along the Oregon Trail. The characters are beset by the hardships of nature, fear, starvation, and hostile Indians.
Author | : Ezra Meeker |
Publisher | : DigiCat |
Total Pages | : 216 |
Release | : 2022-08-10 |
Genre | : Travel |
ISBN | : |
'Ox-Team Days on the Oregon Trail' is a book written by Ezra Meeker about his experience traveling the Oregon Trail by ox-drawn wagon as a young man, migrating from Iowa to the Pacific Coast. Later on in his life, Meeker became convinced that the Oregon Trail was being forgotten, and he determined to bring it publicity so it could be marked and monuments erected. In 1906–1908, while in his late 70s, he retraced his steps along the Oregon Trail by wagon, seeking to build monuments in communities along the way. His trek reached New York City, and in Washington, D.C., he met President Theodore Roosevelt. He traveled the Trail again several times in the final two decades of this life, including by oxcart in 1910–1912 and by airplane in 1924.