Children of the trail west
by Holly Littlefield, National Geographic Learning · 1999

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Explores the experiences of American children who traveled west to Oregon or California on wagon trains between 1841 and 1869, focusing on transportation, chores, recreation, and dangers.
Social life and customsHistoryFrontier and pioneer lifePioneer childrenPioneersOverland journeys to the PacificJuvenile literatureAbolitionistsBiographyPioneers, juvenile literatureFrontier and pioneer life, juvenile literatureOverland journeys to the pacific, juvenile literature