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Utah the Mormons and the West volume no. 15
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English
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Letters from a Presbyterian minister wintering in the Salt Lake Valley in 1850 en route to Oregon, are filled with details of his experiences and observations of the Mormons and his very critical judgments of this community.
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English
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Horatio Nelson Jackson, an eccentric Vermont doctor, drove from San Francisco to New York City, in 1903 to became the first person to drive an automobile across the continent - a feat never before accomplished. It would mark the beginning of a new era in America and the end of another. It took Lewis & Clark over two years to go from the Atlantic to the Pacific - Horatio went the opposite direction, by means of the "Horseless carriage", in less than...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 16
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English
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Lee Westfall, a young woman with the magical ability to sense the presence of gold, must flee her home to avoid people who would abuse her powers, so when her best friend Jefferson heads out across Gold Rush-era America to stake his claim, she disguises herself as a boy and sets out on her own dangerous journey.
29) The Oregon Trail
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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The integral part the Oregon Trail had in the westward expansion of the United States is described in graphic illustrations.
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English
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A chronicle of the mid-nineteenth-century wagon train tragedy draws on the perspectives of one of its survivors, Sarah Graves, recounting how her new husband and she joined the Donner party on their California-bound journey and encountered violent perils, in an account that also offers insight into the scientific reasons that some died while others survived.
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English
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In 1856, two emigrant handcart companies and two wagon trains were caught in the October snows of Wyoming. They left too late from England in their 6,000 mile journey to the Salt Lake Valley. Nearly one fifth of these 1200 pioneers perished in the worst overland migration disaster in American history. The tragedy could have been catastrophic had a rescue effort not been launched immediately upon learning of their plight. More than a hundred wagon...
37) Westward to Home
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Joshua's Oregon Trail Diary volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
In 1848, nine-year-old Joshua Martin McCullough writes a journal of his family's journey from Missouri to Oregon in a covered wagon. Includes a historical note about westward migration.
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