Books with title The Oregon Trail

Ezra Meeker's famous recollections of life in the American wilderness are published here complete with the one hundred and twenty original photographs and illustrations. In his memoir, Ezra Meeker casts his mind back to his early years growing up in Indiana during the 1830s and 1840s. He recalls setting off for Iowa and Oregon along the long and winding Western trail; the Gold Rush, which fueled migration to the farthest reaches of the continent, is remembered with evocative clarity. Meeker recalls the lives and characteristics of the Native American peoples, and the fellow migrants he met on his travels. Meeker pens valuable descriptions of the varied wilderness; the dusty plains, towering mountains, dense forests and barren deserts of America are described with moving vividness. In his later years, Ezra Meeker gained fame and renown by undertaking a journey across the USA across the Oregon Trail once again. This famous expedition of 1906-1908 is recalled, with some of the monuments Meeker placed in the small towns he traversed along the way photographed. The final chapters see Meeker personally meet President Theodore Roosevelt. By the time this autobiography was published in 1922, much of what Meeker described in the United States was well on the way to being bygone. The Western reaches of the country were undergoing rapid settlement, as advances such as the radio and the automobile made North America continent seem much smaller. Ox-Team Days on the Oregon Trail is therefore a retrospective of the United States as it grew in size and influence over almost a century, as well as a depiction of the nation's beauty and vastness.

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The Picture the Past series looks at the many kinds of communities in America's past. Each book describes what made each community different and what children and adults did each day. Life on the Oregon Trail In this book, discover what it was like to be a part of a wagon train on the Oregon Trail. Find out how children went to school on the trail. Visit a fort on the trail to learn how travelers traded with Native Americans. Discover how travelers found and prepared food. Then use a recipe to cook an Oregon Trail meal–bacon stew!

[This is the Audiobook CD Library Edition in vinyl case.] [Read by Robert Morris] This is the classic account of Francis Parkman's rugged trip over the eastern part of the Oregon Trail with his cousin, Quincy Adams Shaw, in the spring and summer of 1846. They left St. Louis by steamboat and arrived in Oregon on horseback, in company with guides and occasional other travelers. They encountered storms, buffalo hunts, and meetings with Indians, soldiers, sportsmen, and emigrants. The Oregon Trail is an eyewitness account of the Mormons and outlaws, trappers and Indians, pioneers and adventurers who struggled to conquer the frontier.

Later edition of this classic with fourteen full page color illustrations by Thomas Hart Benton. It has been beautifully rebound and is now housed in a clamshell box. The binding is in desert browns which enhance the text. vi, ii , 328 pages. rebound in half-leather, marbled paper-covered boards, raised bands, gilt rules and lettering on spine, cloth & marbled paper covered clamshell box with burnt orange leather label on spine. 8vo.