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Author:

Hunsaker, Joyce Badgley.

Title:

Seeing the elephant : the many voices of the Oregon Trail / Joyce Badgley Hunsaker.

Publisher:

Texas Tech University Press,

Copyright Date:

c2003

Description:

xvi, 260 p. : ill., maps ; 22 cm.

Subject:

Oregon National Historic Trail--Description and travel--Juvenile literature.
Pioneers--Oregon National Historic Trail--Juvenile literature.--Juvenile literature.
Frontier and pioneer life--Oregon National Historic Trail--Juvenile literature.
Overland journeys to the Pacific--Juvenile literature.
Oregon National Historic Trail.
Pioneers.
Frontier and pioneer life--West (U.S.)
Overland journeys to the Pacific.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 253-256) and index.

Contents:

Wagon Train By-Laws, 1849 -- Articles of Agreement, 1864 -- Outfit for Oregon, 1847 -- Emigrant's guide to California, 1849 -- Prairie Traveler Handbook for Overland Travelers, 1859 -- Meeker's Memorandum of Outfit and Eatables, 1852 -- Narcissa Whitman, into the unknown, 1836 -- Thomas Jefferson Farnham, go west, young man! 1839 -- Jesse Applegate, a boy's grand adventure 1843 -- Catherine Sager, Oregon Trail orphan 1844 -- Abigail Scott, where many fond hopes have been laid 1852 -- Ezra Meeker, the trail was a battlefield 1852 -- Helen Stewart, oh dear, oh dear! This is going to Oregon 1853 -- Fincelius G. Burnett, army Indian fighter on the Overland Trail 1865 -- Mrs. Lucy Alice Ide, trail's end, thus we all are scattered 1878.

Summary:

Provides paintings, photographs, newspaper articles, and fictionalized diaries of real people who traveled the Oregon Trail throughout the nineteenth century.

ISBN:

9780896725041 (alk. paper)
0896725049 (alk. paper)

LCCN:

2003004076

Locations:

FXPH314 -- Carnegie-Stout Public Library (Dubuque)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

PQAX094 -- Wartburg College - Vogel Library (Waverly)