Books with title Oregon Trail

(AGES 11-99 )-Spring 1847. Jeff and Sarah Sanders have left their comfortable home in Missouri. The Sanders family and five other families in the community are headed west on the Oregon Trail. You'll get to know them all,but especially thirteen year old Lindy Sanders who learns some hard lessons on the journey. When all is said and done,it's family that really matters.If you like books like Little house On the Prairie, Anne of Greene Gables, and similar series, you'll probably like LINDY ON THE OREGON TRAIL, book one in the Oregon series.

Francis Parkman was a 23-year-old scion of a prominent Boston family when he decided to write the history of the struggle of French and English for domination of the North American continent. In order to learn firsthand about the Indians of the Plains, he prepared himself with guides, supplies, and information, setting out from Westport, Missouri, in spring 1846 and returning that September. From that trip emerged one of the seminal books of American literature, The Oregon Trail.

Learn about the events that made America what she is today.As the excitement of westward expansion swept through the eastern United States in the mid-19th century, thousands of people traveled over 2,000 miles along the Oregon Trail in search of new fortunes. Readers will learn how the trail was blazed, why people wanted to travel westward, and what hardships the travelers faced on their journey.