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Surviving the Oregon Trail. Stories in American History

By Rebecca Stefoff

Book information

Publisher
Enslow Publishers
Year
2012
ISBN
978-1-4645-0469-3
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
13 MB (13256608 bytes)
Pages
73\0
Time added
2015-05-04 05:29:20

Description

In the nineteenth century, over half a million men, women and children traveled west on the Oregon Trail. Stretching two thousand miles from Independence Missouri, to the Pacific Northwest, the Oregon Trail was the longest overland route used in the westward expansion. Crossing mountains and deserts, fighting disease, short of both food and water, pioneers endured many hardships to follow the trail west with their hopes and dreams of seeking fortunes in the unsettled west.In SURVIVING THE OREGON TRAIL, author Rebecca Stefoff traces the roots of the Oregon and California Trails back to the seventeenth century, telling the stories of those who left the security and comfort of their homes, to endure months of hard travel in the hope of a new life.

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