overland journeys to the pacific

The adventures of a family of magicians traveling across the western deserts and plains in the 1880s.

Tells the story of the Donner Party, a group of emigrants who left Missouri in 1846 in search of a better life in California, but whose decision to take what they believed to be a short-cut led to disaster. Presented in graphic novel form.

Reprints excerpts, maps, illustrations, and advertisements from a variety of publications issued in the 1850s to provide travelers with the information they needed to make the cross-country trip to California.

The story of the women who traveled to Oregon 150 years ago. Includes a guide to historical sites along the Oregon Trail that recognize women's history.

Relates the hardships encountered by a group of pioneers travelling by covered wagon from Iowa to California in 1844.

James Frazier Reed, one of the leaders of the Donner Party, sets off with his family in a covered wagon known as the Palace Car, planning to travel to California in style, but he is exiled from the group after a fight with a drover, and goes on ahead, only to find himself separated from his wife and children who are trapped in sudden snow storms.

The story of the epic journey of the Sager children by covered wagon from Missouri to Oregon in 1848.

Julie and her family join a wagon train traveling from Indiana to Oregon during the 1800s, enduring many challenges while on the difficult five-month journey.

A fictional journal recounting the travels--from Pittsburgh to the Pacific Ocean--of sixteen-year-old George Shannon, the youngest member of Lewis and Clark's Corps of Discovery.