Examines what life was like during the Westward Expansion, exploring the clothing, schooling, family life, and more. Includes fact boxes, visuals, glossary, and index.
"Examines the Oregon Trail by discussing how and why it came to be and the immediate and lasting effects it had on the nation and the people who traveled it"--.
Describes the adventurous prospectors who traversed the United States in 1848 in response to rumors of gold in the Sacramento Valley, detailing the rough and rowdy cities that popped up, seemingly out of thin air, to accommodate the treasure-seekers.
As the pioneers traveled routes such as the Oregon Trail and the Santa Fe Trail on their journey through the West they experienced many hardships that affected not only their lives, but also the American Indians, America's animals, and the country.
In 1865, fifteen-year-old Aiden and his thirteen-year-old sister Maddy, penniless orphans, leave drought-stricken Kansas on a wagon train hoping for a better life in Seattle, but find there are still many hardships to be faced.
being the (slightly) true narrative of how a brave pioneer father brought apples, peaches, pears, plums, grapes, and cherries (and children) across the plains
Hopkinson, Deborah
When a family decides to move from Iowa to Oregon, they take their fruit trees along to be replanted, and much of the struggle they endure as they travel is spent preserving the trees.
Shares the details of the Oregon Trail and the United States westward expansion in the 1800s and provides multiple accounts of the event, and readers learn details through the point of view of a pioneer, a Native American in a territory crossed by the trail, and a U.S. soldier at a government outpost.
