Download or read book A Frontier Fort on the Oregon Trail written by Scott Steedman and published by Peter Bedrick Books. This book was released on 1993 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes life in a frontier fort on the Great Plains in the 19th century, Mid-Western America.
Download or read book The Oregon Trail and Westward Expansion Events written by Tim McNeese and published by Milliken Publishing Company. This book was released on 2002-09-01 with total page 25 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This packet provides a detailed and richly illustrated overview of the Oregon Trail and other westward expansion events. The frontier is defined and demythologized as Hollywood's stereotypical portrayals are replaced with factual--yet no less fascinating and lively--depictions of pioneer life. Events and personalities are vividly described, and challenging review questions encourage meaningful reflection and historical analysis. A test, answer key, and extensive bibliography are included.
Download or read book The Oregon Trail written by Charles River Editors and published by Createspace Independent Pub. This book was released on 2014-01-17 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: *Includes pictures. *Includes accounts of people who traveled on the Oregon Trail. *Includes a bibliography for further reading. "My greatest pleasure in travelling through the country is derived from the knowledge that it has seldom been traversed, or at least never been described by any hackneyed tourist, that everything I see or look upon has been seen by me before it has become common by the vulgar gaze or description of others.” – Dr. James Middleton The westward movement of Americans in the 19th century was one of the largest and most consequential migrations in history, and among the paths that blazed west, the most well-known is the Oregon Trail, which was not a single trail but a network of paths that began at one of four “jumping off” points. The eastern section of the Oregon Trail, which followed the Missouri River through Kansas, Nebraska, and Wyoming, was shared by people traveling along the California, Bozeman, and Mormon Trails. These trails branched off at various points, and the California Trail diverged from the Oregon Trail at Fort Hall in southern Idaho. From there, the Oregon Trail moved northward, along the Snake River, then through the Blue Mountains to Fort Walla Walla. From there, travelers would cross the prairie before reaching the Methodist mission at The Dalles, which roughly marked the end of the Trail. The Trail stretched roughly half the country, and hundreds of thousands of settlers would use it, yet the Oregon Trail is famous not so much for its physical dimensions but for what it represented. As many who used the Oregon Trail described in memoirs, the West represented opportunities for adventure, independence, and fortune, and fittingly, the ever popular game named after the Oregon Trail captures that mentality and spirit by requiring players to safely move a party west to the end of the trail. Perhaps most famously, the game that helped popularize current generations' interest in the Oregon Trail highlighted the obstacles the pioneers faced in moving West. Indeed, as all too many settlers discovered, traveling along the Trail was fraught with various kinds of obstacles and danger, including bitter weather, potentially deadly illnesses, and hostile Native Americans, not to mention an unforgiving landscape that famous American explorer Stephen Long deemed “unfit for human habitation.” And while many would look back romantically at the Oregon Trail over time, 19th century Americans were all too happy and eager for the transcontinental railroad to help speed their passage west and render overland paths like the Oregon Trail obsolete. The Oregon Trail: America's Most Famous Path to the Western Frontier comprehensively covers the history of the Trail and the settlers who moved west along it, including descriptions of the Trail in accounts written by settlers. Along with pictures depicting important people, places, and events, you will learn about the Oregon Trail like you never have before.
Download or read book Surviving the Journey written by Danny Kravitz and published by Capstone. This book was released on 2014-07-01 with total page 33 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Examines the Oregon Trail by discussing how and why it came to be and the immediate and lasting effects it had on the nation and the people who traveled it"--
Download or read book Francis Parkman The Oregon Trail The Conspiracy of Pontiac LOA 53 written by Francis Parkman and published by Library of America. This book was released on 1991-05-01 with total page 1012 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “From boyhood,” wrote Francis Parkman, “I had a taste for the woods and the Indians.” This Library of America volume, containing The Oregon Trail and The Conspiracy of Pontiac, brilliantly demonstrates this lifelong fascination. His first book, The Oregon Trail, is a vivid account of his frontier adventures and his encounters with Plains Indians in their final era of nomadic life. The Conspiracy of Pontiac and the Indian War after the Conquest of Canada, Parkman’s first historical work, portrays the fierce conflict that erupted along the Great Lakes in the aftermath of the Seven Years’ War and chronicles the defeats in which the eastern Native American tribes “received their final doom.” The Oregon Trail (1849) opens on a Missouri River steamboat crowded with traders, gamblers, speculators, Oregon emigrants, “mountain men,” and Kansas Indians. In his search for Natives untouched by white culture, Parkman meets the Whirlwind, a Sioux chieftain, and follows him through the Black Hills. His descriptions of natives’ buffalo hunts, feasts and games, feuds, and gift-giving derive their intensity from his awareness that he was recording a vanishing way of life. Praised by Herman Melville for its “true wild-game flavor,” The Oregon Trail is a classic tale of adventure that celebrates the rich variety of life Parkman found on the frontier and the immensity and grandeur of America’s western landscapes. In The Conspiracy of Pontiac (1851), Parkman chronicles the consequences of the French defeat in Canada for the eastern Native American tribes. At the head of the Native American resistance to the Anglo-American advance in the 1760s was the daring Ottawa leader Pontiac, whose attacks on the frontier forts and settlements put in doubt the continuation of western expansion. A powerful narrative of battles and skirmishes, treaties and betrayals, written with eloquence and fervor and filled with episodes of heroism and endurance, The Conspiracy of Pontiac captures the spirit of a tragic and tumultuous age. LIBRARY OF AMERICA is an independent nonprofit cultural organization founded in 1979 to preserve our nation’s literary heritage by publishing, and keeping permanently in print, America’s best and most significant writing. The Library of America series includes more than 300 volumes to date, authoritative editions that average 1,000 pages in length, feature cloth covers, sewn bindings, and ribbon markers, and are printed on premium acid-free paper that will last for centuries.
Download or read book Westward Expansion written by James F. Salisbury and published by In the Hands of a Child. This book was released on 1994 with total page 63 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This 8-week interdisciplinary unit for fourth- and fifth-grade students helps children address the U.S. westward expansion in the 1840's using the interactive software program, The Oregon Trail. The unit provides connections to literature, geography, computer/mathematics skills, language arts, and research skills. The work is done in cooperative groups over the course of the unit with a variety of assessment strategies suggested. Worksheets, handouts, and student materials are included. Upon completion of the unit students will be able to: (1) locate and identify the states along the Oregon Trail; (2) identify reasons for westward expansion; (3) gain a basic understanding of some of the native North American culture; (4) participate in collaborative group activities; and (5) demonstrate knowledge of life in the 1840s--food, clothing, families, etc. Selected bibliography contains 32 items. (EH)
Download or read book Ox Team Days on the Oregon Trail written by Ezra Meeker and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-08-10 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: '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.
Download or read book A 19th Century Frontier Fort written by Scott Steedman and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book invites the reader to step inside a 19th-century frontier fort and discover what life was like for the pioneers of the American West.
Download or read book The Oregon Trail written by Francis Parkman and published by Gramercy. This book was released on 1995 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Keen observations and a graphic style characterize the author's remarkable record of a vanishing frontier. Detailed accounts of the hardships experienced while traveling across mountains and prairies; vibrant portraits of emigrants and Western wildlife; and vivid descriptions of Indian life and culture. A classic of American frontier literature.
Download or read book The Oregon Trail written by Francis Parkman and published by . This book was released on 1887 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Foul Filthy American Frontier written by Heather E. Schwartz and published by Capstone Classroom. This book was released on 2010-12 with total page 18 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From dust storms and swarms of bugs to poisonous water and spoiled food, life could be filthy for pioneers in the American West. Get ready to explore the nasty side of life on the American frontier.
Download or read book The Oregon Trail written by Francis Parkman and published by Signet Classics. This book was released on 1950-07-01 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Almost hidden in this medley one might have seen a small French cart of the sort very appropriately called a ?mule-killer? beyond the frontiers" reads the first page."
Download or read book The Oregon Trail written by Francis Parkman and published by . This book was released on 2001-06 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Keen observations and a graphic style characterize the author's remarkable record of a vanishing frontier. Detailed accounts of the hardships experienced while traveling across mountains and prairies; vibrant portraits of emigrants and Western wildlife; and vivid descriptions of Indian life and culture. A classic of American frontier literature.
Download or read book A Frontier Fort written by Scott Steedman and published by Scribo. This book was released on 2015-03-17 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What was it like to live in a nineteenth-century fort, in the midst of the wild frontier? Take a peek inside its strong, high walls to see how it was built; what a pioneer cabin was like; what the people there did all day; and how the forts sometimes grew into bustling towns. Cutaway illustrations capture the fort in its spectacular entirety.
Download or read book The Oregon Trail written by Rinker Buck and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2015-06-30 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new American journey.
Download or read book The Oregon Trail Sketches of Prairie and Rocky Mountain Life written by Francis Parkman and published by Prabhat Prakashan. This book was released on 2023-10-01 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Oregon Trail: Sketches of Prairie and Rocky-Mountain Life by Francis Parkman takes readers on a captivating journey through the American frontier. Drawing from his own experiences, Parkman provides a vivid and immersive account of the arduous and perilous journey along the Oregon Trail in the mid-19th century. With detailed descriptions of the landscape, encounters with Native American tribes, and the challenges faced by pioneers, the book offers a compelling narrative of adventure, exploration, and the pursuit of a new life. Key Aspects of the Book The Oregon Trail: Sketches of Prairie and Rocky-Mountain Life: Firsthand Account of the Frontier: Parkman's book offers a firsthand account of the American frontier during a significant period in history. Through his personal experiences and observations, he paints a vivid picture of the rugged landscapes, harsh conditions, and encounters with Native American tribes that pioneers faced along the Oregon Trail. His detailed sketches provide readers with an intimate glimpse into the realities of life on the frontier. Exploration and Adventure: The book captures the spirit of exploration and adventure that characterized the westward expansion of the United States. Parkman's narrative follows the journey of pioneers as they navigate treacherous terrains, ford rivers, and face the uncertainties of the wilderness. Readers are swept away by the excitement and challenges of the frontier, experiencing the thrill of discovery alongside the pioneers. Cultural and Historical Insights: In addition to the gripping adventure, Parkman's book offers valuable cultural and historical insights. He provides observations on the Native American tribes encountered along the trail, shedding light on their customs, traditions, and interactions with the pioneers. The book also offers a glimpse into the social and political dynamics of the time, showcasing the resilience and determination of those who ventured west in search of a better future. In Francis Parkman's captivating narrative, The Oregon Trail: Sketches of Prairie and Rocky-Mountain Life, readers are transported to the American frontier during a pivotal era of westward expansion. Parkman's firsthand account, combined with his insightful cultural and historical observations, provides an immersive reading experience. This book stands as a testament to Parkman's dedication to documenting the realities of the frontier and his skill in bringing the spirit of adventure and exploration to life through his vivid prose.
Download or read book Oregon City Or Bust Two Books in One written by Jesse Wiley and published by HMH Books For Young Readers. This book was released on 2019-10-08 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explore the frontier, young pioneer! Inside, find two choose your own trail books in one: The Search for Snake River and The Road to Oregon. In these last two legs of your trek on the Oregon Trail, you're halfway to Oregon City, but do you have the grit to make it there? The wild frontier is full of risks and surprises! Continue your journey West and reach your final destination--if you can make the right decisions!
