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"Settling the American West required true grit, fortitude, and when necessary, shedding blood. It also required men like Preacher and MacCallister to enforce peace in a land where the law was scarce--and justice was delivered from the barrel of a gun... Wagon trains carrying immigrants along the Oregon Trail are falling prey to outlaws. Most families surrender their valuables and goods peacefully, but anybody brave enough to resist gets a bullet....
6) Mr. Tucket
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Series
Tucket adventures volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 4
Description
In 1848, while on a wagon train headed for Oregon, fourteen-year-old Francis Tucket is kidnapped by Pawnee Indians and then falls in with a one-armed trapper who teaches him how to live in the wild.
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Trail drive series volume 9
Pub. Date
1995
Description
Having sold half their herd to a wagon train heading west from Missouri, Lou Spencer, Dill Sumner, and their crew of Texas cowboys hire on to lead the pioneers across the dangerous frontier to Oregon.
10) The Oregon Trail
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.2 - AR Pts: 1
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.
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Pub. Date
c2008
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In 1843, Kate Winfield is among the first of what will be eventually 300,000 Americans who will travel thousands of miles up the Oregon Trail in search of a better life. Through perilous river crossings, blistering heat, choking dust clouds, freezing nights, and the tragic passing of her mother, Kate grows up emotionally and spiritually and begins to dream of becoming a medical missionary to the Inidians. But that dream is challenged when a plauge...
13) Bound for Oregon
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 6
Description
A fictionalized account of the true life journey made by nine-year-old Mary Ellen Todd and her family from their home in Arkansas westward over the Oregon Trail in 1852.
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Library of America volume 053
Description
Contains "The Oregon Trail," a collection of essays that first appeared in the "Knickerbocker Magazine," discussing Parkman's trip to Oregon in 1846, and "The Conspiracy of Pontiac," relating Ottawa leader Pontiac's attacks on British forts and settlements in the 1760s.