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1) Wagons West
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Hank the Cowdog volume 67
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It's early springtime on the ranch, and Hank is going through the usual motions of making sure that a warm spring arrives safely: singing songs about it, barking faithfully each morning, and helping the cowboys with their work around the ranch. However, in the midst of a particularly hard day's nap, he receives a report that his little birdy friend, Madame Moonshine, is in danger of being eaten by Pete the Barncat! Naturally, Hank springs into
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This edition includes a modern introduction and a list of suggested further reading. “The Oregon Trail” offers a critical view of the Conestoga wagon generation. The result of the notes Parkman took along the newly-developed roads to the West, the book put an end to the sentimentalized portrait of pioneer travel. Altering the course of American history and shaping early views of Native Americans, it denounces, in its descriptions of the Oglala...
4) Pioneer cat
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Random House
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 1
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When a young pioneer girl smuggles a cat aboard the wagon train taking her family from Missouri to Oregon, it turns out to be the best thing she could have done.
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"Wagon trains carrying immigrants along the Oregon Trail are falling prey to outlaws. Most families surrender their valuables and goods peacefully, but anybody brave enough to resist gets a bullet. The gang's latest victim was a wagon master who sought to protect his charges only to die in the dust. With the blood of good men being spilled and families being terrorized, Preacher and Jamie MacCallister volunteer to escort the next wagon train. Preacher...
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Scholastic
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 4
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In her diary, thirteen-year-old Hattie chronicles her family's arduous 1847 journey from Missouri to Oregon on the Oregon Trail. In a diary format, this novel chronicles the hardships that pioneers endured during a trip west on the Oregon Trail.
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Ranger in time volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 2
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690L
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Ranger, a golden retriever, could have been a great search-and-rescue-dog except for the squirrels--but one day he unearths a mysterious box and finds himself transported back to the year 1850 where his faithful service is really needed by a family traveling west along the Oregon Trail.
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Scholastic
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 5
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In his 1845 diary, thirteen-year-old orphan Jedediah describes his wagon train journey to Oregon, in which he confronts rivers and sandy plains, bears and rattlesnakes, and the challenges of living with his fellow travelers. Includes historical notes.
11) The Oregon trail
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.5 - AR Pts: 22
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The Oregon Trail is the gripping account of Francis Parkman's journey west across North America in 1846. After crossing the Allegheny Mountains by coach and continuing by boat and wagon to Westport, Missouri, he set out with three companions on a horseback journey that would ultimately take him over two thousand miles. Map.
14) The Oregon Trail
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 1
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Excitement over the West inspired thousands of Americans in the mid-1800s to start new lives on the other side of the continent. The Oregon Trail follows the trials and hopes of the emigrant's journeys.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 11
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During a thirteen hundred mile journey from Kansas to the Bitterroot Mountains, Caleb O'Toole faces deserts, tornadoes, wolves, and the infamous Blackstone Gang as he tries to honor his promise to his dying mother and keep his sisters safe.
16) The Oregon trail
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The Entertainment Group
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A we celebrate the 150th anniversary of the opening of the Oregon Trail, western entertainer and poet, Red Steagall, takes us on a fact-filled voyage across the 2,000 mile route of America's Great Migration-- from Independence, Missouri to Independence, Oregon. Told through historic photographs and modern reenactments, this is the story of those courageous pioneers who, in the 1840's, ventured into an uncharted wilderness, toward an uncertain future,...
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Wagon Train Matches volume 1
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"Spending five months eating trail dust wasn't Leo Spencer's first choice. Or his second. He's not one to run away, but some situations can't be fixed and his family -- two brothers and a sister -- needs to start over. Which is how he finds himself on a westbound wagon train. Evangeline has a secret, one that has sent her on a journey across the plains on the Oregon Trail. When her father is badly hurt and she needs help, Leo is there. A deal is struck...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 2
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Eight-year-old Sarah's high spirits help make her family's long journey from Missouri to Oregon more bearable, though they do cause both her and her best friend Almira Ann some problems. Sarah Benton and her family set off on a journey westward, following the Oregon Trail. Sarah's best friend, Almira Ann, is on the trail, too. But the journey sours when Sarah unintentionally scares Almira Ann, causing her to fall out of the wagon and break her leg....
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Dial Books for Young Readers, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) Inc
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 1
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An account of several families and individuals making the long and often dangerous trek across the United States from Missouri to the West Coast in the 1800s.
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"Missouri, 1860. Rumors of war between the North and South are spreading across the land. In rural Green County, many of the farmers are already choosing sides. But not John Zachary. His loyalties lie with his family first--and his heart is telling him to go west. Hoping to build a new life in the fertile valleys of Oregon, he convinces his best friend, Emmitt Braxton, to pack up their families and join him on a wagon train across the Oregon Trail....
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