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1) The opening of the California Trail: the story of the Stevens party, from the reminiscences of Moses Schallenberger, as set down for H.H. Bancroft about 1885

Author

Schallenberger, Moses

Series

Bancroft Library publications volume no. 4

Publisher

University of California Press

Pub. Date

1953

Physical Desc

115 p. : ill., ports., maps.

2) The overland trail to California in eighteen fifty-two

Author

Eaton, Herb

Publisher

Putnam

Pub. Date

1974

Physical Desc

v. : map.

3) The Oregon Trail

Publisher

Boettcher/Trinklein Television, Inc

Pub. Date

c2002

Physical Desc

1 DVD (ca. 120 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.

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Four half-hour programs tell the story of the Oregon Trail.

4) Desperate passage: the Donner Party's perilous journey West

Author

Rarick, Ethan

Publisher

Oxford University Press

Pub. Date

c2008

Physical Desc

288 p., [8] p. of plates : ill., map ; 25 cm.

5) The elephant quilt: stitch by stitch to California!

Author

Lowell, Susan

Publisher

Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Pub. Date

c2008

Physical Desc

1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 29 cm.

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Lily Rose and Grandma stitch a quilt that tells the story of their family's journey from Missouri to California by covered wagon in 1859.

6) Boone's Lick: a novel

Author

McMurtry, Larry

Publisher

Simon & Schuster

Pub. Date

c2000

Physical Desc

287 p. ; 23 cm.

7) History of the Donner Party: a tragedy of the Sierra

Author

McGlashan, C. F

Publisher

Stanford University Press

Pub. Date

c1947

Physical Desc

261 p. : ill., maps., ports.

8) Josefina y la colcha de retazos

Author

Coerr, Eleanor

Series

Ya sé leer

Publisher

Harper Arco Iris

Pub. Date

1995

Physical Desc

64 p. : col. ill. ; 23 cm.

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While traveling west with her family in 1850, a young girl makes a patchwork quilt chronicling the experiences of the journey and reserves a special patch for her pet hen Josefina.

9) In California before the gold rush

Author

Bidwell, John

Publisher

Ward Ritchie Pr

Pub. Date

1948

Physical Desc

1 v.

10) Overland to California in 1847: letters written en route to California : west from Independence, Missouri, to the editor of the Joliet signal

Author

Ingersoll, Chester

Publisher

Ye Galleon Press

Pub. Date

1970

Physical Desc

50 p.

11) The ride of her life: the true story of a woman, her horse, and their last-chance journey across America

Author

Letts, Elizabeth

Pub. Date

[2021]

Formats

Book, Large Print

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"The incredible true story of a woman who rode her horse across America in the 1950s, fulfilling her dying wish to see the Pacific Ocean, from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Perfect Horse and The Eighty-Dollar Champion. In 1954, Annie Wilkins, a sixty-three-year-old farmer from Maine, embarked on an impossible journey. She had no relatives left, she'd lost her family farm to back taxes, and her doctor had just given her two years...

12) The perilous journey of the Donner Party

Author

Calabro, Marian

Publisher

Clarion Books

Pub. Date

c1999

Physical Desc

192 p. : ill., maps ; 26 cm.

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Uses materials from letters and diaries written by survivors of the Donner Party to relate the experiences of that ill-fated group as they endured horrific circumstances on their way to California in 1846-47.

13) The Oregon Trail

Author

Fisher, Leonard Everett

Publisher

Holiday House

Pub. Date

c1990

Physical Desc

64 p. : ill., maps, ports. ; 26 cm.

14) The great American gold rush

Author

Blumberg, Rhoda

Publisher

Bradbury Press

Pub. Date

c1989

Physical Desc

135 p. : ill., maps, ports. ; 29 cm.

15) Every fixed star

Author

Kirkpatrick, Jane

Series

Tender ties historical series volume 2

Publisher

WaterBrook Press

Pub. Date

2003

Physical Desc

422 p. : map ; 21 cm.

16) The buffalo storm

Author

Applegate, Katherine

Publisher

Clarion Books

Pub. Date

c2007

Physical Desc

32 p. : col. ill. ; 26 cm.

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When Hallie and her parents join a wagon train to Oregon and leave her grandmother behind, Hallie must learn to face the storms that frighten her so, as well as other, newer fears, with just her grandmother's quilt to comfort her.

17) Westward to home: Joshua's diary

Author

Hermes, Patricia

Series

My America volume 1
Dear America volume year 1848

Publisher

Scholastic

Pub. Date

2001

Physical Desc

108 p. : ill. ; 20 cm.

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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.

18) Gold rush: the journals, drawings, and other papers of J. Goldsborough Bruff, captain, Washington City and California Mining Association, April 2, 1849-July 20, 1851

Author

Bruff, Joseph Goldsborough

Publisher

Columbia University Press

Pub. Date

1944

Physical Desc

1 v. : ill.,facsims.

19) What I saw in California: being the journal of a tour by the emigrant route and South Pass of the Rocky Mountains, across the continent of North America, the great desert basin, and through California,...

Author

Bryant, Edwin

Series

Calafía volume 1

Publisher

Fine Arts Press

Pub. Date

1936

Physical Desc

xxiv, 481 p. : ill., facsim., map ; 26 cm.

20) The true account: concerning a Vermont gentleman's race to the Pacific against and exploration of the western American continent coincident to the expedition of Captains Meriwether Lewis and...

Author

Mosher, Howard Frank

Publisher

Houghton Mifflin

Pub. Date

2003

Physical Desc

337 p. ; 22 cm.

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1) The opening of the California Trail: the story of the Stevens party, from the reminiscences of Moses Schallenberger, as set down for H.H. Bancroft about 1885

2) The overland trail to California in eighteen fifty-two

3) The Oregon Trail

4) Desperate passage: the Donner Party's perilous journey West

5) The elephant quilt: stitch by stitch to California!

6) Boone's Lick: a novel

7) History of the Donner Party: a tragedy of the Sierra

8) Josefina y la colcha de retazos

9) In California before the gold rush

10) Overland to California in 1847: letters written en route to California : west from Independence, Missouri, to the editor of the Joliet signal

11) The ride of her life: the true story of a woman, her horse, and their last-chance journey across America

12) The perilous journey of the Donner Party

13) The Oregon Trail

14) The great American gold rush

15) Every fixed star

16) The buffalo storm

17) Westward to home: Joshua's diary

18) Gold rush: the journals, drawings, and other papers of J. Goldsborough Bruff, captain, Washington City and California Mining Association, April 2, 1849-July 20, 1851

19) What I saw in California: being the journal of a tour by the emigrant route and South Pass of the Rocky Mountains, across the continent of North America, the great desert basin, and through California,...

20) The true account: concerning a Vermont gentleman's race to the Pacific against and exploration of the western American continent coincident to the expedition of Captains Meriwether Lewis and...

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