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Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Douglas Deeds, a fifteen-year-old orphan, keeps a journal of his travels by wagon train as a member of the ill-fated Donner Party, which became stranded in the Sierra Nevada mountains in the winter of 1846-47.
Author
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) LLC
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"An account of several families and individuals making the long and often dangerous trek across the United States from Missouri to the West Coast in the 1800s"--
Author
Series
Publisher
Penguin Workshop
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"In the winter of 1846-47, a group of eighty-seven pioneers heading from the Midwest to California found themselves snowbound in the Sierra Nevada mountain range with no way forward and no food or supplies. While forty-eight of the group members survived, the others perished due to extreme weather, starvation, and illness. To survive, the remaining people resorted to extreme measures . . . including cannibalism. Learn about the many miscalculations,...
Author
Series
Publisher
Children's Press
Pub. Date
©2010.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
How long was the Oregon Trail? What was the "Brown Gold Rush"? Learn surprising true facts about the Oregon Trail that will shock and amaze you! Features maps, a timeline, photos.
Ages 8-12.
Author
Publisher
National Geographic Society
Pub. Date
©2006.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.1 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Reveals what really happened when Narcissa Whitman and her husband, Marcus, embarked on a perilous quest through the untamed Oregon Trail to spread the word of the Bible to the Indians.
Author
Publisher
Amulet Books, an imprint of Abrams
Pub. Date
[2013]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.7 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
The Donner Party expedition is one of the most notorious stories in all of American history. It's also a fascinating snapshot of the westward expansion of the United States, and the families and individuals who sacrificed so much to build new lives in a largely unknown landscape. From the preparation for the journey to each disastrous leg of the trip, this book shows the specific bad decisions that led to the party's predicament in the Sierra Nevada...
12) The Oregon Trail
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
[1990]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Charts the journey of those who followed the Oregon Trail in the first half of the nineteenth century, describes the obstacles and dangers they encountered, and discusses the Trail's eventual decline with the introduction of the cross-country railroad.
Author
Series
Publisher
Lucent Books
Pub. Date
[1999]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.2 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Describes how people traveling on the Oregon Trail lived, discussing their reasons for going west, modes of transportation, interaction with the Indians, and activities on the Trail.
Author
Series
Publisher
Lucent Books
Pub. Date
2001.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.6 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Describes the history of American westward expansion, including the exploration of the frontier to the Pacific Ocean, the establishment of the Lone Star State and the Mormon kingdom of Deseret, Manifest Destiny, the California gold rush, the population of the plains, and the legacy of the American frontier.
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