Books with title Covered Wagon

the story of a crowd of forerunners going through the old West from Kansas to Oregon. On their journey, they felt the hotness of the desert, mountain snow, hunger and thirst, and Indian assault. "Look at 'em come, Jesse! More and more! Must be forty or fifty families." Molly Wingate, middle-aged, portly, dark browed and strong, stood at the door of the rude tent which for the time made her home. She was pointing down the road which lay like an ecru ribbon thrown down across the prairie grass, bordered beyond by the timber-grown bluffs of the Missouri. Jesse Wingate allowed his team of harness-marked horses to continue their eager drinking at the watering hole of the little stream near which the camp was pitched until, their thirst quenched, they began burying their muzzles and blowing into the water in sensuous enjoyment. He stood, a strong and tall man of perhaps forty-five years, of keen blue eye and short, close-matted, tawny beard. His garb was the loose dress of the outlying settler of the Western lands three-quarters of a century ago. A farmer he must have been back home.

Emerson Hough (1857-1923) was an American author, best known for writing western stories. Hough graduated from the University of Iowa with a law degree. He moved to White Oaks, New Mexico, and practiced law there but eventually turned to literary work by taking camping trips and writing about them for publication. He is best known as a novelist, writing The Mississippi Bubble (1902) as well as The Covered Wagon (1922). Hough was also a conservationist, and was the catalyst behind a law passed by the U. S. Congress to protect the buffalo in Yellowstone National Park. His other works include The Singing Mouse Stories (1895), The Girl at the Halfway House (1900), The Law of the Land (1904), Heart's Desire (1905), The Way of a Man (1907), 54- 40 or Fight (1909), The Purchase Price (1910), The Man Next Door (1917), The Passing of the Frontier (1918) and The Sagebrusher (1919).

It is 1912, and six-year-old Nellie is in for the adventure of a lifetime. Her parents are looking for work, so Nellie and her whole family pack into a crowded covered wagon for a long, exciting journey. Even though she is sad to leave home, Nellie sees things she's never seen before: a car, a train, and she even gets a scary ride across the river on a ferry! Nellie also makes some new friends along the way. Children will love to laugh and learn alongside Nellie as she steps outside the comfort of home and faces the new world around her. Author Marie Conyers McKay based this lively and educational book on the real-life story of her own mother's childhood and travels. McKay spent her career as a librarian, and brings this story to us with the hope that you will enjoy her mother's story. She currently lives near Birmingham, Alabama, and is working on a series of novellas about life in Hong Kong, where she lived for several years. Publisher's website: http://www.strategicpublishinggroup.com/title/TheCoveredWagonTrek.html

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