Books with title Oregon

"It was a childish, foolish sort of plot. Everything was against its success except that in a country so wild as this all nature plotted with John to confuse and outwit the grown people. A wind-storm rose with the sun and blew the sand over the children's tracks..."---from On to Oregon! In 1844, the Oregon Trail was really no trail at all. The way led over mountains of broken rock, across boiling rivers, or along some hideous precipice where there was no trace of the previous passing and each wagon shifted for itself. On August 20 of that year, Henry Sager, aged 38, died of dysentery. Just eleven days later, Naomi Sager died, aged 32, on that terrible trail. That left John head of the family. He was the eldest at 13; the youngest, his sister Ann, was just 6 weeks old. So it was his decision. Should he let his family be broken up or should he head on in the direction his mother and father had originally intended---on to Oregon? "Will capture and hold the attention of every boy and girl."---Publishers Weekly" "Recorded Books Presents. On to Oregon by Honore' Morrow! C 1954 Cornelia M. Chester. P 1992 Recorded Books, Inc. 92122 (4 cassettes/6 hours).? Unabridged. Narrated by Norman Dietz. ISBN 1-55690-585-8." (from case)

When On to Oregon! was first published in 1926, th portland Oregonian said: "Mrs. Morrow has written a classic, a boy's book that will go on the shelf beside Huckleberry Finn. With the magic of her genius she has made immortal the boy, John Sager, who moved to Oregon." Since that review was written On to Oregon! has gone through seventeen printings and has indeed become an American classic. It is now reissued in a new and beautiful format with illustrations by Edward Shenton. Mr. Shenton's work is too well know to need comment. His drawings in many biographies and books of fiction have won him a distinguished place among modern illustrators. These illustrations for On to Oregon! are among the finest he has done. Here is the story of the Sager family who, in 1844, left their home in Missouri to make the two-thouseand-mile journey by covered wagon to Oregon. After the death of his parents, John Sager, thirteen years old, continued on with his younger brother and sisters. With scanty supplies and equipment, the children followed the Snake River, Crawling wearily across plains and over mountains, hiding from Indians, always on short rations and suffering from exposure and fatigue. With rare skill and humor, Mrs. Morrow portrays the children, who enjoyed thier adventure in spite of the hardships. Although John was made of heroic stuff, he was at times a sorely-tried youngster. he hustled and bullied his brood, guarding them against every peril, but pouncing upon any sign of slackening. Somehow they survived the incredible dangers and managed to reach Oregon after traveling a thousand miles through the wilderness.