overland journeys to the pacific

As they journey west, a family nurtures the red flower they have carried with them from their old home.

Eight-year-old Sarah's high spirits help make her family's long journey from Missouri to Oregon more bearable, though they do cause both her and her best friend Almira Ann some problems.

In 1860, fourteen-year-old Clem Fontayne learns from fellow travelers about important topics of the day, including the Mormon migration, slavery, and the Pony express, as he journeys from Missouri to California in search of his father.

A mother and her children struggle to survive a dangerous expedition through the mountains so they can be reunited with the rest of the family.

As his family sets out from Missouri to Oregon, young Ben wonders whether he will have more trouble with the dangers of the journey or his debilitating asthma.

"Read about how over half a million men, woman and children risked their lives and traveled west on the Oregon Trail in hopes for a better future"--Provided by publisher.

Recounts the journey of the Donner Party which, in 1846, sought to travel from Independence, Missouri, to California but took an untried shortcut that trapped them in the Sierra Nevada mountains during a terrible winter.

In her diary, thirteen-year-old Hattie chronicles her family's arduous 1847 journey from Missouri to Oregon on the Oregon Trail.

The story of the Sagar family who left their Missouri home in 1844 to make a two thousand mile trip by covered wagon to Oregon.

Describes the difficulties encountered by settlers who traveled westward in covered wagons or prairie schooners along the Oregon Trail during the 1830's and 1840's.