Author: Kenneth L. Holmes
Publisher: Bison Books
Keywords: covered, women, wagon, trails, western, diaries, letters
Number of Pages: 300
Published: 1998-09-01
List price: $16.95
ISBN-10: 0803272960
ISBN-13: 9780803272965
"We traveled this forenoon over the roughest and most desolate piece of ground that was ever made", wrote Amelia Knight during her 1853 wagon train journey to Oregon. The letters and diaries of women like Amelia open a window on not only the hardships, privation, and danger the travelers endured, but also on their diverse backgrounds and religious beliefs--and the awesome landscape that challenged them with every step.
Author: Emerson Hough
Publisher: Kessinger Publishing
Keywords: wagon, covered
Number of Pages: 396
Published: 2004-04-30
List price: $33.95
ISBN-10: 1417913231
ISBN-13: 9781417913237
1922. Illustrated with scenes from the Photoplay a Paramount picture. Hough’s literary career grew out of his taking camping trips and writing about them for publication. His body of work eventually included 27 novels and hundreds of short stories and articles. Hough’s early works included The Singing Mouse Stories, for children, and the nonfiction The Story of the Cowboy. He had his first major success in 1902 with his novel The Mississippi Bubble, which became a bestseller. The book begins: Look at ’em come, Jesse! More and More! Must be forty or fifty families. Molly Winga
Author: Kenneth L. Holmes
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Keywords: women, wagon, covered
Number of Pages: 304
Published: 2008-04-30
List price: $19.95
ISBN-10: 0806139145
ISBN-13: 9780806139142
The diaries and letters of women who braved the overland trails during the great nineteenth-century westward migration are treasured documents in the study of the American West. These eight firsthand accounts are among the best ever written. They were selected for the power with which they portray the hardship, adventure, and boundless love for friends and family that characterized the overland experience. Some were written with the skilled pens of educated women. Others bear the marks of crude cabin learning, with archaic and imaginative spelling and a simplicity of expression. All convey the
Author: Deborah Blumenthal
Publisher: Sandpiper
Keywords: tantrum, cookie, covered, chocolate
Number of Pages: 32
Published: 1999-03-22
List price: $6.95
ISBN-10: 0395700280
ISBN-13: 9780395700280
While in the park Sophie decides she wants a cookie and throws a tantrum when her mother will not give her what she wants.
Author: Mary Jane Carr
Publisher: Christian Liberty Press
Keywords: wagon, covered, children
Number of Pages: 272
Published: 2007-03-01
List price: $9.95
ISBN-10: 1932971505
ISBN-13: 9781932971507
Young children will love to read this historically-accurate, personal account of pioneers heading west on the Oregon Trail during the mid-1800s. Great illustrations, large print and helpful maps wi
Authors:Verla Kay, S. D. Schindler,
Publisher: Putnam Juvenile
Keywords: trails, bumpy, wagons, covered
Number of Pages: 32
Published: 2000-10
List price: $16.99
ISBN-10: 0399229280
ISBN-13: 9780399229282
Mother, Father and Baby John are heading west! The fertile Sacramento Valley is calling, and the deep rivers, endless plains, blistering desert, and steep mountains in the way are not going to stop them. The spirit of the grueling and exciting life on those treacherous trails is enlivened by little known details (did you know the pioneers pitched valuables from their wagons at steep sections of the trails?) and an energetically appealing family.Praise for Gold Fever, also by Verla Kay and S. D. Schindler: "A rich vein of Americana, cleverly mined."--Publishers Weekly, starred review "Kay̵
Author: Paul Erickson
Publisher: Puffin
Keywords: wagon, covered, life, daily
Number of Pages: 48
Published: 1997-07-01
List price: $7.99
ISBN-10: 0140562125
ISBN-13: 9780140562125
In 1853, the Larkin family loaded their covered wagon and headed west on the Oregon trail in search of a new life. How did they do it? What did they eat? How did they dress? How did they survive sickness or attacks from cattle thieves? Drawing on diaries and letters, and illustrated with photos of actual objects from the past, Daily Life in a Covered Wagon explores what life was really like on the wagon train. Full-color illustrations, b&w photos.
