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Trail drive series volume 9
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Having sold half their herd to a wagon train heading west from Missouri, Lou Spencer, Dill Sumner, and their crew of Texas cowboys hire on to lead the pioneers across the dangerous frontier to Oregon.
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Pub. Date
c2008
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In 1843, Kate Winfield is among the first of what will be eventually 300,000 Americans who will travel thousands of miles up the Oregon Trail in search of a better life. Through perilous river crossings, blistering heat, choking dust clouds, freezing nights, and the tragic passing of her mother, Kate grows up emotionally and spiritually and begins to dream of becoming a medical missionary to the Inidians. But that dream is challenged when a plauge...
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Pub. Date
2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 5
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In his 1845 diary, thirteen-year-old orphan Jedediah describes his wagon train journey to Oregon, in which he confronts rivers and sandy plains, bears and rattlesnakes, and the challenges of living with his fellow travelers. Includes historical notes.
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Katie and the mustang volume 2
Pub. Date
c2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 4
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Joined by Hiram, the farmhand, Katie begins the journey west. But then tragedy strikes, and Katie finds herself having to choose between parting ways with Hiram, or abandoning her dreams of going west.
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They are the first wagon train to cross the American continent - and forge the Oregon Trail. Five-hundred courageous men, women and children, led by mountain man Whip Holt, they have survived the Rocky Mountain winter, fierce native attacks, and countless other hardships.
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