overland journeys to the pacific

Describes disgusting details about daily life in the American frontier, including housing, food, and sanitation.

"It's 1850, and you are setting off on the treacherous Oregon Trail . . . Your goal is to get you and your family to Chimney Rock on time. But many dangers await you on the journey ahead. Wild animals, natural disasters, sickness, and other obstacles stand between you and your destination. Which path will get you safely across the prairie? With more than twenty possible endings, choose wrong and you'll never make it to Chimney Rock on time. Choose right and blaze a trail that gets you closer to Oregon City!"--OCLC.

"It's 1850, and you are continuing on the treacherous Oregon Trail. In this second book of four, you need to get to Devil's Gate, the halfway mark on your 2,000-mile journey West. Keep watch! Danger awaits you on your way to those eerie cliffs. Which path will you choose in the face of danger? With more than twenty possible endings, choose wrong and you'll never make it to Devil's Gate. Choose right and blaze a trail that gets you closer to Oregon City!"--Provided by publisher.

Depicts the beautiful landscapes,the hardships, and joys, experienced by the pioneers as they traveled westward to Oregon and, secondly, illustrates the short-lived history of the Pony Express and the adventures and romance that characterized it.

From 1804 to 1806, Lewis and Clark traveled with the Corps of Discovery on an 8,000-mile journey, from the Missouri and Mississippi rivers to the Pacific by foot, boat and horseback. Learn about the Corps of Discovery's explorations of the American West through photographs, dramatic reenactments, diary excerpts and illustrated maps.

Examines the history of the Oregon Trail, a path that stretched over two thousand miles from Missouri to the Pacific Northwest, discussing the experiences of the many immigrants who traveled west in the mid-1800s to start new lives.

At the height of the California Gold Rush in 1849, a wagon train of men, women, children and their animals stumbled into a one hundred-and-thirty-mile-long valley in the Mojhave Desert. Barren and hostile, with a dry and unearthly surface of white salts, they became hopelessly lost. After killing the oxen for food, they prepared to die until a twenty-nine-year-old hero, William Lewis Manly, volunteered to cross the desert and attempt to get help. Forty-five years later, Manly told his tale in a book first published in 1894. At his death in Los Angeles in 1903, he had been a miner, rancher, merchant, farmer, pioneer and adventurer and had helped to open the American West.

Presents photos and information about the Oregon Trail. Discusses important stops and landmarks, daily life for covered-wagon travelers, and planning a road trip along the trail. Includes a glossary, index, and resources for further information.

"As Josephine Jenkins sets off on the Oregon Trail with her mother and younger brothers to reunite with her father out West, she realizes that her beloved diary has gone missing. Meanwhile, her fellow traveler Stephen Byrd is sad to be leaving his friends behind as his family makes the move to Oregon. Follow Josephine and Stephen along the trail as they camp in the wilderness, look out over incredible landscapes, and prepare for their new lives in the West"--Amazon.com.

Traveling with his owners from Missouri to Oregon in 1848, Koda, an energetic two-year-old quarter horse, finds the long journey increasingly tedious and tiring until his young owner goes missing on the trail and he must use all his skills to find her.