overland journeys to the pacific

This book describes how manifest destiny was a popular idea for Americans and discusses how the wish for more land brought people to the Western United States.

Tells the stories of ten young women who traveled west in the mid-1800s, discussing the perils and adventures of their pionner experiences; and includes excerpts from their diaries.

Offers the writings and recollections of thirteen Anglo women who traveled to the American West in the 1840s, taken from their letters and diaries, and reflecting the political, social, and economic forces of the era.

When a disaster claims the men of their wagon train, spunky twelve-year-old Phoebe, her mother, sister, and other women rely on their own resources to complete the journey to Oregon in 1845.

A fictionalized account of the 1841 Bidwell-Bartleson expedition which included seventeen-year-old Nancy Kelsey, the first American woman to journey from Missouri to California.

The letters and thoughts of Thomas Jefferson, members of the Corps of Discovery, their guide Sacagawea, and Captain Lewis's Newfoundland dog, all tell of the historic exploratory expedition to seek a water route to the Pacific Ocean.

Civil war nurse Mercy Lynch, informed that her estranged father is dying in Seattle and wants to see her, leaves Virginia and heads to St. Louis where she boards the Union-operated steam engine "Dreadnought" for what turns out to be a harrowing journey she fears she will not survive.

Relates the ordeals faced by a group of pioneers on theri journey from Illinois to California in 1846.

Sixteen-year-old Fortune faces many challenges on an overland journey to California in 1853 with the acting company that she inherited from her father.

Depicts life on the Oregon Trail in the 1800s as people traveled west in pursuit of their dreams.