overland journeys to the pacific

Explores various details of territorial expansion in the United States, covering pioneer life, government relations with Native Americans, the Northwest Ordinance, the Louisiana Purchase, the Texas Revolution, and more, with illustrations, a timeline, and statistics.

Explores various details of frontier and pioneer life in connection with the Oregon National Historic Trail, covering topics such as the growth of fur trapping and the contest between different nations for control of Oregon, with illustrations, a timeline, and statistics.

Provides a cultural and historical context for the development of the United States from 1846 to 1860, and includes Manifest Destiny, war with Mexico, why people moved west, life on the Oregon Trail, the railroad across the continent, and more.

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.