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| oregon trail diary: Across the Wide and Lonesome Prairie Kristiana Gregory, 2003-11-01 In her diary, thirteen-year-old Hattie chronicles her family's arduous 1847 journey from Missouri to Oregon on the Oregon Trail. |
| oregon trail diary: The Wild Year Patricia Hermes, 2003 In this book, Joshua's diary comes to an end with stories of life in Oregon, his sister lost in the woods, and Joshua starting school. Simultaneous. |
| oregon trail diary: The Oregon & California Trail Diary of Jane Gould in 1862 Jane Gould, 1987 |
| oregon trail diary: The Oregon Trail Diary of Willa Porter Andy Marino, 2013-11-06 The Oregon Trail Diary of Willa Porter is a collection of diary entries from Willa Porter's journey west with her family, into territory which gets stranger and stranger. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied. |
| oregon trail diary: Westward to Home Patricia Hermes, 2002-08-01 In 1848, nine-year-old Joshua Martin McCullough writes a journal of his family's journey from Missouri to Oregon in a covered wagon, in an addition to a popular series which includes a historical note about westward migration. Reprint. |
| oregon trail diary: Women's Diaries of the Westward Journey Lillian Schlissel, 2004-07-06 More than a quarter of a million Americans crossed the continental United States between 1840 and 1870, going west in one of the greatest migrations of modern times. The frontiersmen have become an integral part of our history and folklore, but the Westering experiences of American women are equally central to an accurate picture of what life was like on the frontier. Through the diaries, letters, and reminiscences of women who participated in this migration, Women’s Diaries of the Westward Journey gives us primary source material on the lives of these women, who kept campfires burning with buffalo chips and dried weeds, gave birth to and cared for children along primitive and dangerous roads, drove teams of oxen, picked berries, milked cows, and cooked meals in the middle of a wilderness that was a far cry from the homes they had left back east. Still (and often under the disapproving eyes of their husbands) they found time to write brave letters home or to jot a few weary lines at night into the diaries that continue to enthrall us. In her new foreword, Professor Mary Clearman Blew explores the enduring fascination with this subject among both historians and the general public, and places Schlissel’s groundbreaking work into an intriguing historical and cultural context. |
| oregon trail diary: Days on the Road Sarah Raymond Herndon, 1902 The author was a member of the Hardinbrooke ox-train; this is a journal of her experiences in the Montana migration. |
| oregon trail diary: Rachel's Journal Marissa Moss, 2001 In her journal, Rachel chronicles her family's adventures traveling by covered wagon on the Oregon Trail in 1850. |
| oregon trail diary: Oregon Trail Diary: Letitia Carson 1845 Janet Meranda, 2017-10-13 An 1845 Oregon Trail Diary from the viewpoint of one of the pioneers, an African American woman, Letitia Carson, who could not read or write. |
| oregon trail diary: Diary of Sallie Hester Sallie Hester, 2014 Presents excerpts from the diary of Sallie Hester, a teenager who traveled West on the Oregon Trail in a wagon train in the mid-1800s-- |
| oregon trail diary: Journal of the Adventures of a Party of California Gold-seekers , 1897 |
| oregon trail diary: Bruff's Wake Harold L. James, 2011 Bruff's Wake tells the story of forty-niners who survived hardship with resolve and endurance. The accompanying illustrations, which include a number of Bruff's sketches paired with modern photographs taken at the same sites, give vivid depictions of life and death on the California Trail in 1849. In addition, Bruff's route is correlated to the geography of the modern era, so that the trail can be traced on modern maps. Taken together, the narrative, sketches, photographs, and geological descriptions of the terrain, coupled with generous quotes from Bruff's long-out-of-print journal, allow the reader to follow in Bruff's wake -- Publisher's description, p. [4] of cover. |
| oregon trail diary: The Oregon Trail David Dary, 2007-12-18 A major one-volume history of the Oregon Trail from its earliest beginnings to the present, by a prize-winning historian of the American West. Starting with an overview of Oregon Country in the early 1800s, a vast area then the object of international rivalry among Spain, Britain, Russia, and the United States, David Dary gives us the whole sweeping story of those who came to explore, to exploit, and, finally, to settle there. Using diaries, journals, company and expedition reports, and newspaper accounts, David Dary takes us inside the experience of the continuing waves of people who traveled the Oregon Trail or took its cutoffs to Utah, Nevada, Montana, Idaho, and California. He introduces us to the fur traders who set up the first “forts” as centers to ply their trade; the missionaries bent on converting the Indians to Christianity; the mountain men and voyageurs who settled down at last in the fertile Willamette Valley; the farmers and their families propelled west by economic bad times in the East; and, of course, the gold-seekers, Pony Express riders, journalists, artists, and entrepreneurs who all added their unique presence to the land they traversed. We meet well-known figures–John Jacob Astor, Marcus and Narcissa Whitman, John Frémont, the Donners, and Red Cloud, among others–as well as dozens of little-known men, women, and children who jotted down what they were seeing and feeling in journals, letters, or perhaps even on a rock or a gravestone. Throughout, Dary keeps us informed of developments in the East and their influence on events in the West, among them the building of the transcontinental railroad and the efforts of the far western settlements to become U.S. territories and eventually states. Above all, The Oregon Trail offers a panoramic look at the romance, colorful stories, hardships, and joys of the pioneers who made up this tremendous and historic migration. |
| oregon trail diary: Joshua's Oregon Trail Diary Patricia Hermes, 2002-11-01 Late in 1848, nine-year-old Joshua McCullough starts a second journal, this time recording events in Willamette Valley, Oregon Territory, as his family and others they met on the trail begin to get settled. Simultaneous. |
| oregon trail diary: Oregon Trail Stories David Klausmeyer, 2004 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. |
| oregon trail diary: Platte River Road Narratives Merrill J. Mattes, 1988 This massive annotated bibliography of all known significant eyewitness accounts of nineteenth-century central overland travel fills a conspicuous gap in historical literature, and will greatly accelerate research, writing, and collecting. Platte River Road Narratives includes not only all identifiable overland accounts, but also a number of those identifiable in manuscript form only. Over 2,000 entries identify the author, the form of the passage, overland trip, and give Matte's authoritative commentary and evaluation, as well as identification of the repository of the source material. |
| oregon trail diary: If You Were a Kid on the Oregon Trail (If You Were a Kid) Josh Gregory, 2024-11-12 Follow Josephine and Stephen along the trail as they camp in the wilderness, look out over incredible landscapes, and prepare for their new lives in the West. As Josephine Jenkins sets off on the Oregon Trail with her mother and younger brothers to reunite with her father out West, she realizes that her beloved diary has gone missing. Meanwhile, her fellow traveler Stephen Byrd is sad to be leaving his friends behind as his family makes the move to Oregon. Readers (Ages 7-9) will follow Josephine and Stephen along the trail as they camp in the wilderness, look out over incredible landscapes, and prepare for their new lives in the West. |
| oregon trail diary: Wagons Ho! Cynthia Mercati, 2000-01-01 A party of Indian men visited our camp last night! At the sight of them, the fiddles came to a stop. So did the banjos. So did all the people. We just stood and stared. Their chests were bare. Their black hair was braided. They wore deerskin leggings and moccasins. They're Crow, Captain McCullough explained. Book jacket. |
| oregon trail diary: The Oregon Trail Rinker Buck, 2015-06-30 A new American journey. |
| oregon trail diary: DK Readers L2: Journey of a Pioneer Patricia J. Murphy, 2008-08-18 Photographs combine with lively illustrations and engaging, age-appropriate stories in DK Readers, a multilevel reading program guaranteed to capture children's interest while developing their reading skills and general knowledge. Journey of a Pioneer follows the adventures of a young girl as her family travels west in covered wagons along the famous Oregon Trail. |
| oregon trail diary: Our Strange New Land Patricia Hermes, 2002-05-01 Nine-year-old Elizabeth keeps a journal of her experiences in the New World as she encounters Indians, suffers hunger and the death of friends, and helps her father build their first home. |
| oregon trail diary: Westward to Home Patricia Hermes, 2002-08 For use in schools and libraries only. In 1848, nine-year-old Joshua Martin McCullough writes a journal of his family's journey from Missouri to Oregon in a covered wagon. Includes a historical note about westward migration. |
| oregon trail diary: A Texas Cowboy's Journal Jack Bailey, 2014-07-14 In this earliest known day-by-day journal of a cattle drive from Texas to Kansas, Jack Bailey, a North Texas farmer, describes what it was like to live and work as a cowboy in the southern plains just after the Civil War. We follow Bailey as the drive moves northward into Kansas and then as his party returns to Texas through eastern Kansas, southwestern Missouri, northwestern Arkansas, and Indian Territory. For readers steeped in romantic cowboy legend, the journal contains surprises. Bailey’s time on the trail was hardly lonely. We travel with him as he encounters Indians, U.S. soldiers, Mexicans, freed slaves, and cowboys working other drives. He and other crew members—including women—battle hunger, thirst, illness, discomfort, and pain. Cowboys quarrel and play practical jokes on each other and, at night, sing songs around the campfire. David Dary’s thorough introduction and footnotes place the journal in historical context. |
| oregon trail diary: Westward to Home Patricia Hermes, 2001 In 1848, nine-year-old Joshua Martin McCullough writes a journal of his family's journey from Missouri to Oregon in a covered wagon, in an addition to a popular series which includes a historical note about westward migration. |
| oregon trail diary: The 1849 California Trail Diaries of Elijah Preston Howell Elijah Preston Howell, 1995 Elijah Preston Howell traveled from Gentry County, Missouri, to the goldfields in California during the dramatic summer of 1849. His eloquent and descriptive gold rush diary has been superbly annotated and placed in historical context by trail scholars. |
| oregon trail diary: A Perfect Place Patricia Hermes, 2002 Late in 1848, nine-year-old Joshua McCullough starts a second journal, this time recording events in Willamette Valley, Oregon Territory, as his family and others they met on the trail begin to get settled. Simultaneous. |
| oregon trail diary: Seeds of Hope Kristiana Gregory, 2015-08-01 A diary account of 14-year-old Susanna Fairchild's life in 1849, when her father succumbs to gold fever on the way to establish his medical practice in Oregon after losing his wife and money on their steamship journey from New York. Includes an historical note. Originally published with Scholastic's Dear America series, Seeds of Hope shares characters from Across the Wide and Lonesome Prairie: The Oregon Trail Diary of Hattie Campbell, 1847. |
| oregon trail diary: Earthquake at Dawn Kristiana Gregory, 2003 Having survived the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, photographer Edith Irvine and her assistant, Daisy Valentine, documented the devastation. This true story includes many of Irvine's photos. An ALA Best Book for Young Adults. |
| oregon trail diary: The Meek Cutoff Brooks Geer Ragen, 2013 In 1845, an estimated 2,500 emigrants left Independence and St. Joseph, Missouri, for the Willamette Valley in what was soon to become the Oregon Territory. It was general knowledge that the route of the Oregon Trail through the Blue Mountains and down the Columbia River to The Dalles was grueling and dangerous. About 1,200 men, women, and children in over two hundred wagons accepted fur trapper and guide Stephen Meek's offer to lead them on a shortcut across the trackless high desert of eastern Oregon. Those who followed Meek experienced a terrible ordeal when his memory of the terrain apparently failed. Lost for weeks with little or no water and a shortage of food, the Overlanders encountered deep dust, alkali lakes, and steep, rocky terrain. Many became ill, and some died in the forty days it took to travel from the Snake River in present-day Idaho to the Deschutes River near Bend, Oregon. Stories persist that children in the group found gold nuggets in a small, dry creek bed along the way. From 2006 to 2011, Brooks Ragen and a team of specialists in history, geology, global positioning, metal detecting, and aerial photography spent weeks every spring and summer tracing the Meek Cutoff. They located wagon ruts, gravesites, and other physical evidence from the most difficult parts of the trail, from Vale, Oregon, to the upper reaches of the Crooked River and to a location near Redmond where a section of the train reached the Deschutes. The Meek Cutoff moves readers back and forth in time, using surviving journals from members of the 1845 party, detailed day-to-day maps, aerial photographs, and descriptions of the modern-day exploration to document an extraordinary story of the Oregon Trail. Brooks Geer Ragen is chairman of the board of directors of Manzanita Capital. He lives in Seattle. |
| oregon trail diary: A Home at Trail's End Melody A. Carlson, 2013-07-01 Bestselling author Melody Carlson (more than 5 million books sold) continues her Homeward on the Oregon Trail series with this third and final adventure. Elizabeth Martin and her two children have finally reached the Oregon Country. But Eli Kincade, the wagon train scout who captured her heart, has chosen to continue life on the trail. As other pioneer families begin building new homes, Elizabeth has never felt more alone. However, when Eli unexpectedly returns, confesses his love, and proposes, Elizabeth accepts with her family’s blessing. A community begins to take shape, but not without growing pains. As an alternative to the local minister’s fiery sermons, Elizabeth’s father begins to preach at home, raising the ire of some. Racial biases arise against Brady, Elizabeth’s African-American hired hand. Eli’s warm sentiments toward Indians also raises concerns. Can Elizabeth and her family overcome these differences and begin a legacy of reconciliation and love? About This Series: The Homeward on the Oregon Trail series brings to life the challenges a young widow faces as she journeys west, settles her family in the Pacific Northwest, and helps create a new community among strong-willed and diverse pioneers. |
| oregon trail diary: The Stout-Hearted Seven Neta Lohnes Frazier, 2006 Recounts the adventures of the seven Sager children, orphaned during their journey to Oregon where they were adopted by Marcus and Narcissa Whitman. |
| oregon trail diary: Surviving the Oregon Trail, 1852 Weldon Willis Rau, 2021-08-03 With numbers swelled by Oregon-bound settlers as well as hordes of gold-seekers destined for California, the 1852 overland migration was the largest on record in a year taking a terrible toll in lives mainly due to deadly cholera. Included here are firsthand accounts of this fateful year, including the words and thoughts of a young married couple, Mary Ann and Willis Boatman, released for the first time in book-length form. In its immediacy, Surviving the Oregon Trail, 1852 opens a window to the travails of the overland journeyers--their stark camps, treacherous river fordings, and dishonest countrymen; the shimmering plains and mountain vastnesses; trepidation at crossing ancient Indian lands; and the dark angel of death hovering over the wagon columns. But also found here are acts of valor, compassion, and kindness, and the hope for a new life in a new land at the end of the trail. |
| oregon trail diary: Ox-Team Days on the Oregon Trail Ezra Meeker, Howard R. Driggs, 2022-08-10 Ezra Meeker's 'Ox-Team Days on the Oregon Trail' presents an elegiac recollection of pioneering life and monumental efforts to memorialize one of America's formative odysseys. Meeker elegantly narrates his youthful exodus westward, painting a vivid tableau of the American frontier with a richness that situates the reader squarely alongside his oxen-drawn wagon. His prose intertwines a personal memoir with historical documentation, set against the literary context of American manifest destiny and westward expansion. The text becomes an essential fabric of Americana, situating Meeker as not just a participant, but a preserver of this significant chapter in U.S history. In exploring the authorial impetus behind Meeker's work, one observes the poignant intersection of personal legacy with the collective memory of a nation. Having prospected, farmed, and ultimately thrived in the Pacific Northwest, Meeker's later years were marked by an impassioned crusade to cement the Oregon Trail's significance. His advocacy for the Trail's preservation was a tireless endeavor - from replaying his journey to enlightening contemporaries, including the then President Theodore Roosevelt, about its historical import. 'Recommended for historians and enthusiasts of American heritage alike, 'Ox-Team Days on the Oregon Trail' is a must-read that transcends mere memoir. It serves as a sentinel of memory, safeguarding the trials and triumphs of those who shaped the contours of the West. Meeker's narrative not only captivates with adventure but implores modern readers to honor the valiant past of pioneering spirits whose footprints forged a nation from sea to shining sea. |
| oregon trail diary: All the Stars in the Sky Megan McDonald, 2003 A girl's diary records the year 1848 during which she, her brother, mother, and stepfather traveled the Santa Fe trail from Independence, Missouri, to Santa Fe. |
| oregon trail diary: Westward to Home Patricia Hermes, 2001-01 |
| oregon trail diary: Voyage on the Great Titanic Ellen Emerson White, 2010 Margaret Ann Brady is appointed to accompany Mrs. Carstairs on a journey on the Titanic, knowing that once she arrivees in New York she will be united with her brother. But the infamous luxury liner is destined for tragedy when the ship collides with a fateful iceberg. |
| oregon trail diary: Impatient with Desire Gabrielle Burton, 2010-03-09 A great adventure. A haunting tragedy. An enduring love. In the spring of 1846, Tamsen Donner, her husband, George, their five daughters, and eighty other pioneers headed to California in eager anticipation of new lives out West. Everything that could go wrong did, and an American legend was born. The Donner Party. We think we know their story--starving pioneers trapped in the mountains performing an unspeakable act to survive--but we know only that one harrowing part of it. Impatient with Desire brings us answers to the unanswerable question: What really happened in the four months the Donners were trapped in the Sierra Nevadas And it brings to stunning life a woman--and a love story--behind the myth. Tamsen Eustis Donner, born in 1801, taught school, wrote poetry, painted, botanized, and was fluent in French. At twenty-three, she sailed alone from Massachusetts to North Carolina when respectable women didn't travel alone. Years after losing her first husband, Tully, she married again for love, this time to George Donner, a prosperous farmer, and in 1846, they set out for California with their five youngest children. Unlike many women who embarked reluctantly on the California-Oregon Trail, Tamsen was eager to go. Later, trapped in the mountains by early snows, she had plenty of time to contemplate the wisdom of her decision and the cost of her wanderlust. Historians have long known that Tamsen kept a journal, though it was never found. In Impatient with Desire, Burton draws on years of historical research to vividly imagine this lost journal--and paints a picture of a remarkable heroine in an extraordinary situation. Tamsen's unforgettable journey takes us from the cornfields of Illinois to the dusty Oregon Trail to the freezing Sierra Nevada Mountains, where she was forced to confront an impossible choice. Impatient with Desire is a passionate, heart-wrenching story of courage, hope, and love in hardship, all told at a breathless pace. Intimate in tone and epic in scope, Impatient with Desire is absolutely hypnotic. |
| oregon trail diary: A Perfect Place Patricia Hermes, 2002-10 For use in schools and libraries only. Late in 1848, nine-year-old Joshua McCullough starts a second journal, this time recording events in Willamette Valley, Oregon Territory, as his family and others they met on the trail begin to get settled. |
| oregon trail diary: The Gold Seekers of '49 Kimball Webster, 1917 Kimball Webster (1828-1916), a New Hampshire farmer, began his overland journey to California in April 1849, and remained in California and Oregon until 1854. The gold seekers of '49 (1917) uses Webster's diary as the basis for the account of his trip to California via a wagon train from Independence, Missouri, and his first weeks in the Sacramento Valley. A much later narrative picks up the story of his later career in California as a goldseeker on the Feather River and Nelson's Creek mines, 1849-1850; descriptions of Sacramento, Yuba City, and Marysville; and surveying in Oregon, 1851-1854. |
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