The journal of Jedediah Barstow, an emigrant on the Oregon Trail
Subtitle: Overland, 1845
By: by Ellen Levine.
Edition: 1st ed.
Series: My name is America
Publisher: Scholastic
Published: 2002
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 172
Subjects: Overland journeys to the Pacific -- Fiction.; Orphans -- Fiction.; Frontier and pioneer life -- West (U.S.) -- Fiction.; Diaries -- Fiction.; Oregon National Historic Trail -- Juvenile fiction.; Oregon National Historic Trail -- Fiction.; West (U.S.) -- Fiction.
Genres: Fiction.; Juvenile fiction.
Description: 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.