Download or read book The Oregon Trail and the Daring Journey West by Wagon written by Amy Graham and published by Enslow Publishing. This book was released on 2006 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines what life was like for pioneers following the Oregon Trail.
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 You Choose The Oregon Trail written by Matthew John Doeden and published by Capstone. This book was released on 2014 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: You're living in the United States during the time of the Westward Expansion. Settlers are heading west on the Oregon Trail as they seek better lives. Will you: Go west with your family as part of a wagon train? Serve as a trail guide for a group of settlers? Try to cope with the changes in your way of life as a western American Indian? Everything in this book happened to real people. And YOU CHOOSE what you do next. The choices you make could lead you to opportunity, to wealth, to poverty, or even to death.
Download or read book Oregon Trail Stories written by David Klausmeyer and published by Falcon Guides. This book was released on 2004 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Travel along the Oregon Trail with the pioneers who dared to "face the elephant" as they moved west in search of a new life. Compiled from the trail diaries and memoirs that document this momentous period in American history, Oregon Trail Stories is a fascinating look at the great American migration of the 19th century.
Download or read book The Oregon Trail written by Jean F. Blashfield and published by Capstone. This book was released on 2001 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An introductory history of the Oregon Trail and its significance in opening the west to settlers, including information on th people who opened the Trail, their reasons for going west, modes of transportation, and a description of a typical day on the Trail.
Download or read book Wagons Ho Pioneers Path to the West The Oregon Trail written by Carole Marsh and published by Gallopade International. This book was released on 2011-03-01 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 22-book American Milestone series is featured as "Retailers Recommended Fabulous Products" in the August 2012 edition of Educational Dealer magazine. Just imagine-riding for six months in a wagon, choking on dust, sweating in searing heat, crossing raging rivers, fighting off disease and Indians-the life of a pioneer on the Oregon Trail. Beginning in the 1840s, thousands of Americans took the risk... and lumbered across this seemingly endless trail to a life of promise in the west. This book includes: What's in That Wagon? Manifest Destiny Perils Along the Trail Into the Unknown Who Were Those Pioneers Bountiful Buffalo Hands-on Activities Reproducible Activities Glossary Fascinating Facts Timeline And Lots More! Students can learn much from the compelling story of the overland pioneers who let nothing, and no one - including daunting Mother Nature, a vast, untamed wilderness, and hostilities of all kinds - stand in the way of their dreams and determination. Climb on up in your wagon and "bump along" in this fun, factual and "Wow-that's amazing" book!
Download or read book The Oregon Trail Yesterday and Today written by William E. Hill and published by Caxton Press. This book was released on 1987 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Distributed by the University of Nebraska Press for Caxton Press In these pages the reader will find a description of the history of the Oregon Trail - from past to present. Inside the reader will find a unique blend of maps, guides, emigrant diaries, journals, and old drawings as well as recent photographs of important locations along the trail.
Download or read book If You Traveled West in a Covered Wagon written by Ellen Levine and published by Turtleback Books. This book was released on 1992-08 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For use in schools and libraries only. Answers questions about what it was like to travel to the Oregon Territory by covered wagon, crossing rivers, mountains, and prairie.
Download or read book Covered Wagons of the Oregon Trail written by Meryl Henderson and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Relive the difficult journey west through excerpts from the pioneers' own diaries.
Download or read book Our Journey West written by Gare Thompson and published by National Geographic Kids. This book was released on 2003 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Illustrated text, letters, and diary excerpts follow the fictional Marshall family, as they travel from New York State to the Oregon territory by wagon train in the 1850s.
Download or read book The Oregon Trail written by Rinker Buck and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2015 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Buck's epic account of traveling the length of the Oregon Trail the old-fashioned way--in a covered wagon with a team of mules, an audacious journey that hasn't been attempted in a century--tells the rich history of the trail, the people who made the migration, and its significance to the country.
Download or read book Clara Morgan and the Oregon Trail Journey written by Marthy Rhodes Figley and published by LernerClassroom. This book was released on 2011-01-01 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After cooking her first batch of perfect biscuits over an open fire, Clara gives them to a hungry Indian visiting their camp, in a book that includes a script and instructions for staging a theatrical performance of this adventure.
Download or read book The Wagon Train Trek written by Jesse Wiley and published by HMH Books For Young Readers. This book was released on 2019-03 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Keep your wagon train alive in this trailblazing choose-your-own-trail experience on the Oregon Trail! With more than twenty possible endings, there are wild animals, rapid rivers, bandits, treacherous weather, famine, and even death that stand between you and your dream life out West. Do you have what it takes to make it all the way to Oregon City? In this exciting choose-your-own-trail stand-alone story featuring 8-bit art, it's 1850 and you are leading a whole covered wagon train with your family on a 2,000-mile trek on the Oregon Trail. Wild animals, natural disasters, unpredictable weather, famine, fast-flowing rivers, strangers, and sickness stand in between you and your destination: Oregon City! Do you have the smarts and skills to keep everyone safe and together on the Trail? Which path will get you safely across the country? With twenty-three possible endings, choose wrong and you'll never live out your dreams. Choose right and blaze a trail that gets you closer to Oregon City! Twitter: @oregontrail Facebook: facebook.com/oregontrail/
Download or read book Flight of Passage written by Rinker Buck and published by Hachette Books. This book was released on 2013-03-05 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Writer Rinker Buck looks back more than 30 years to a summer when he and his brother, at ages 15 and 17 respectively, became the youngest duo to fly across America, from New Jersey to California. Having grown up in an aviation family, the two boys bought an old Piper Cub, restored it themselves, and set out on the grand journey. Buck is a great storyteller, and once you get airborne with the boys you find yourself absorbed in a story of adventure and family drama. And Flight of Passage is also an affecting look back to the summer of 1966, when the times seemed much less cynical and adventures much more enjoyable.
Download or read book Wagon Wheels written by Candy Moulton and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Horse-Drawn wagons retraced the Oregon Trail to commemorate the 150th anniversary of the Great Migration, Candy Moulton, as a correspondent for the Casper Star-Tribune, climbed into the lead wagon driven by Ben Kern. Moulton and Kern's Wagon Wheels is a unique book comparing the trail and the trip -- then and now. Read about the journey, the friendships, the landscape, the weather, the animals, and the politics of an overland crossing by wagon. Draw conclusions about which things have changed in 150 years and which seem to remain the same.
Download or read book Wagons Ho written by George Hallowell and published by Albert Whitman & Company. This book was released on 2011-09-01 with total page 37 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Best Children's Books of the Year 2012, Bank Street College Recommended Read - Kansas State Reading Circle 2011 Reading the West Shortlist, Mountains & Plains Independent Booksellers Association 2011 Book Links Lasting Connection One girl moves to Oregon in a covered wagon, the other in a mini-van in this look at two cross-country moves. What do buffalo, butter churns, and a mini-van have in common? A trip to Oregon, of course! In Wagons, Ho!, two girls move from Missouri to Oregon more than a century apart. Both girls will miss their old homes, but they'll discover new adventures on the road. Readers will love this unique look at history as they empathize with the struggles of moving to a new town while learning about the trials of the Oregon Trail.
Download or read book Westward Ho written by Anna DiGilio and published by . This book was released on 2020-07-15 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: (L)
