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3) Wagon train
Author
Series
Publisher
Grosset & Dunlap
Pub. Date
c1997
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Follows a wagon trail to California in 1848 as hundreds of pioneers endure great hardships while traveling 2,000 miles of wilderness.
Author
Publisher
Children's Press
Pub. Date
2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Recounts the journey of the Donner Party which, in 1846, sought to travel from Independence, Missouri, to California but took an untried shortcut that trapped them in the Sierra Nevada mountains during a terrible winter.
Author
Series
Publisher
World Almanac Library
Pub. Date
c2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Explores the history, routes, landmarks, and legacy of the famous Oregon, California, Mormon, and Santa Fe Trails as well as the people who risked all in order to expand the American frontier.
Author
Series
Publisher
ABDO & Daughters
Pub. Date
c2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Joins the Lewis and Clark Expedition in the fall of 1805 near Weippe, Idaho, as they travel to Gray's Bay, twenty miles from the Pacific Ocean, and build Fort Clatsop as a winter home. Includes highlights and directions to historical points of interest.
11) The Oregon Trail
Author
Series
Publisher
Children's Press
Pub. Date
[2006]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Author
Series
Publisher
Lucent Books
Pub. Date
c2001
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.
17) 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
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"--
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