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by: Mary Barmeyer O'Brien
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 978.0208341
EAN: 9780762710201
ISBN: 0762710209
Label: TwoDot
Manufacturer: TwoDot
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 128
Publication Date: 2002-12
Publisher: TwoDot
Sales Rank: 389126
Studio: TwoDot
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This book chronicles the overland journeys of nine pioneer boys who went west by covered wagon in the mid-1800s. Taken from their letters, diaries, and later memoirs, these remarkable stories describe what it was like to be hungry enough to eat woodpeckers, brave enough to winter alone in the snowbound Sierra Nevada, cold enough to huddle beneath a sister's petticoat at night, and tough enough to push onward despite astounding odds. Trudging barefoot across hundreds of miles of harsh land, each of the boys selected for this collection found the resourcefulness to rise above the unusual circumstances of his overland journey. Whether traveling alone through the vast wilderness to bring food to his starving family like fourteen-year-old Octavius Pringle, struggling for days across Death Valley like six-year-old John Wells Brier, or boating the treacherous rapids of the Columbia River like young Jesse Applegate, each summoned the courage to help his family complete a remarkable trip west.
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Rating: - Spirited stories of young westward emigrants
Heartfelt renderings of life along the Oregon/California Trails through the eyes of boys and adolescent young men. Mary Barmeyer O'Brien selects nine different diaries and memoirs of pioneering young men and paraphrases these diary excerpts with her own style of writing. Wonderfully done!
We read of seven year old Jesse Applegate and their Oregon bound wagon train of 1843 with their many hardships and misfortunes, including the drowning of his brother in the Columbia River.
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