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Pub. Date
2020.
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English
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"'If you are an adventuresome young woman of high moral character and fine health, are you willing to travel to California in search of a good husband?' It's February 1852, and all around Chicago, Maggie sees the postings soliciting 'eligible women' to travel to the gold mines of Goosetown. A young seamstress with a small daughter and several painful secrets, she has nothing to lose. So she joins forty-three other women and two pious reverends on...
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English
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In 1844, two years before the Donner Party, the Stevens-Murphy company left Missouri to be the first wagons into California through the Sierra Nevada Mountains. Mostly Irish Catholics, the party sought religious freedom and education in the mission-dominated land and enjoyed a safe journey--until October, when a heavy snowstorm forced difficult decisions. The first of many for young Mary Sullivan, newlywed Sarah Montgomery, the widow Ellen Murphy,...
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Series
Secret refuge volume 3
Language
English
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Will the War's End Bring the Highwood Family Together Again? When a disastrous decision by the new wagon master forces Jesselynn Highwood and her companions to separate from the wagon train, she races back to Fort Laramie to find a guide to take them to Oregon. But the guide has a far different plan, and following her heart, Jesselyn agrees to join him, her rag-tag band in tow. The ensuing journey is fraught with hardship and danger. Is hope for the...
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Series
Tender ties historical volume 1
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English
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Based on the life of Marie Dorion, the first mother to cross the Rocky Mountains and remain in the Northwest, A Name of Her Own is the fictionalized adventure account of a real woman's fight to settle in a new landscape, survive in a nation at war, protect her sons and raise them well and, despite an abusive, alcoholic husband, keep her marriage together. With two rambunctious young sons to raise, Marie Dorion refuses to be left behind in St. Louis...
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Series
Lexile measure
750L
Language
English
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Con Vallian knew the best way to stay out of trouble was to mind his own business. Then he stopped for a cup of coffee at a stranger's campfire and found himself guiding a family of greenhorns across the prairie -- fighting a pack of rustlers on one hand and some mighty unpredictable Indians on the other!
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English
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A survivor of the Donner Party excursion recounts her life as a teenager escaping an abusive family, taking the journey with the Donner family and enduring a tragic winter in the Sierras.
Mrs. Jacob Klein has a husband, children, and a warm and comfortable home in California. No one, not even her family, knows how she came to be out West thirteen years ago. Jacob, a kind and patient man, has promised not to ask. But if she were to tell her story,...
Author
Series
Secret refuge volume 2
Pub. Date
2000
Edition
Crossings book club ed.
Physical Desc
303 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
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Unforgettable Courage and Romance From Lauraine Snelling Warming countless hearts and bringing history to life, Lauraine Snelling's Sisters of the Confederacy is an exciting tale of courage, adventure, and romance. After finding her expected safe haven destroyed, Jesselyn Highwood must decide where to turn next. With no place left to go, Jesselyn decides to head west on the Oregon Trail. Here she encounters hardship, danger on the journey--and love....
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Series
Nathan Hale's hazardous tales volume 3
Lexile measure
GN 330L
Language
English
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The Donner Party expedition is one of the most notorious stories in all of American history. It's also a fascinating snapshot of the westward expansion of the United States, and the families and individuals who sacrificed so much to build new lives in a largely unknown landscape. From the preparation for the journey to each disastrous leg of the trip, this book shows the specific bad decisions that led to the party's predicament in the Sierra Nevada...
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Series
Ribbons west volume 1
Language
English
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Amid the conflict of the Civil War, "Westward the Dream" reveals a wonderful opportunity for Brenton and Jordana Baldwin to explore the great western frontier with the hopes of a transcontinental railroad on the horizon.
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Series
Pub. Date
1986
Edition
1st ed.
Lexile measure
530L
Physical Desc
64 pages : color illustrations ; 23 cm.
Language
English
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While traveling west with her family in 1850, a young girl makes a patchwork quilt chronicling the experiences of the journey and reserves a special patch for her pet hen Josefina.
14) The hunger
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Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Language
English
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"Evil is invisible, and it is everywhere. That is the only way to explain the series of misfortunes that have plagued the wagon train known as the Donner Party. Depleted rations, bitter quarrels, and the mysterious death of a little boy have driven the isolated travelers to the brink of madness. Though they dream of what awaits them in the West, long-buried secrets begin to emerge, and dissent among them escalates to the point of murder and chaos....
15) Koda
Author
Series
Horse diaries volume 3
Pub. Date
2009
Edition
1st ed.
Lexile measure
730L
Physical Desc
136 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm.
Language
English
Description
Traveling with his owners from Missouri to Oregon in 1848, Koda, an energetic two-year-old quarter horse, finds the long journey increasingly tedious and tiring until his young owner goes missing on the trail and he must use all his skills to find her.
Author
Series
Oregon Trail volume 3
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2018]
Lexile measure
800L
Physical Desc
159 pages : illustrations, maps ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
A family must survive the dangerous ford of the wild Snake River along the Oregon Trail, in a book where the reader's choices determine the outcome of the expedition.
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Series
Oregon Trail volume 4
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
175 pages : illustrations (some color), maps ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
"The end of the Oregon Trail is near, young pioneer--the fourth and final leg of your journey starts here. But, do you have the grit to make it to Oregon City? The wild frontier is full of risks and unpredictable surprises! This is the final installment of four books that will take you all the way to Oregon Territory--if you make the right choices" --
Author
Series
Oregon Trail volume 2
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2018]
Lexile measure
780L
Physical Desc
159 pages : illustrations, maps ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
It's 1850, and you are continuing on the treacherous Oregon Trail. In this second book of four, you need to get to Devil's Gate, the halfway mark on your 2,000-mile journey West. Keep watch! Danger awaits you on your way to those eerie cliffs. Which path will you choose in the face of danger? With more than twenty possible endings, choose wrong and you'll never make it to Devil's Gate. Choose right and blaze a trail that gets you closer to Oregon...
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Series
Pub. Date
1997
Edition
St. Martin's Paperbacks ed.
Physical Desc
viii, 342 pages : map ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
Veteran wagon boss Chance McQuade signed on to take 100 families to Texas, a land of dreams and freedom. But the man who hired him has joined the wagon train and turned it into one long brawl. Now, on the hard drive West, McQuade faces Kiowa, lightning storms, and killers behind his back--all to reach a promised land that's erupting into war.