overland journeys to the pacific

Arvilla has never been able to see the ocean, because of having to care for their farm animals, until she gets an idea for a "voiture" which will enable them all to travel to the Pacific.

Seven stories of real people who used wagon wheels to thrust civilization farther and farther across this continent.

Explores the hardships faced by American pioneers, both on the trail and in frontier towns, using a question and answer format.

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.

Offers the writings and recollections of seven women who traveled to the American West in 1851, taken from their letters and diaries, and reflecting the political, social, and economic forces of the era.

Presents and discusses the diaries and letters of six women who traveled overland in covered wagons during the 1850s, arranged chronologically from their date of departure at the Missouri River.

An adaptation of a diary of Amelia Stewart Knight written while she, her husband, and seven children journeyed from Iowa to the Oregon Territory in 1853.

Describes the frenzied rush to California following the discovery of gold at Sutter's Fort in 1848.

In 1847, when her mother's remarriage sends them on a difficult journey to California, Willow is swept overboard fording the South Platte River and must survive and search for her family.