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Westward Trail

Diaries and Journals

Emsden
Voices From the West: Life Along the Trail
Fulton
A Pioneer Woman's Memoir: Based on the Journal of Arabella Clemens
Gildemeister
A Letter Home
Katz
Black Women of the Old West
Schlissel
The Way West: Journal of a Pioneer Woman
Turner
Mississippi Mud

Pioneer Life

Case
The Empire Builders
Duncan
The West: An Illustrated Story for Children
Erikson
Daily Life in a Covered Wagon
Fisher
The Oregon Trail
Levine
If You Traveled West in a Covered Wagon
Patent
West by Covered Wagon: Retracing the Pioneer Trails
Press
A Multicultural Portrait of the Move West
Sigerman
Land of Many Hands: Women in the American West
Steedman
A Frontier Fort on the Oregon Trail
Stefoff
Children of the Westward Trail
Stefoff
The Oregon Trail in American History
Wright
Wagon Train: A Family Goes West in 1865

Fiction for Young Readers

Byars
The Golly Sisters Go West
Coerr
The Josefina Story Quilt
Gerrard
Wagons West
Van Leeuwen
A Fourth of July on the Plains

Fiction for Older Readers

Gilson
Wagon Train 911
Gregory
Across the Wide and Lonesome Prarie: The Oregon Trail Diary of Hattie Campbell
Hoobler
Julie Meyer: The Story of a Wagon Train Girl
Hooks
Pioneer Cat
Karr
Go West Young Women!
Kudlinski
Facing West: A Story of the Oregon Trail
Lawler
West Along the Wagon Road 1852
Moss
Rachel's Journal: The Story of a Pioneer Girl
Murphy
West to a Land of Plenty: The Diary of Teresa Angelino Viscardi
O'Dell
Thunder Rolling in the Mountains
Paulsen
Mr. Tucket
Van Leeuwen
Bound For Oregon
Woodruff
Dear Levi: Letters From the Overland Trail