Trailblazers series

Seventeen-year-old Tim Scott, an oarsman, and his friend John Mills, a hunter, share many adventures after being selected to participate in the historic Lewis and Clark Expedition.

Bill and his brother Curt survive a risky trip down the Mississippi as members of a flatboat crew, only to have to make the much more dangerous trip back along the bandit-ridden Trace trail.

Ben and his family overcome heat, thirst, illness, and other dangers in a quest to complete their five-month journey along the Oregon Trail.

Meg, a new mother, pushes on to California, aided by the hired hands Jack and Carl, after her husband dies enroute to the gold fields.

Liz embarks on a grand adventure filled with new friends and experiences, as well as danger, when she joins her father on his eight-hundred-mile journey along the Santa Fe Trail.