Seeing the elephant
Subtitle: the many voices of the Oregon Trail
By: Joyce Badgley Hunsaker.
Publisher: Texas Tech University Press
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Lubbock
Language: eng
Number of pages: 260
Subjects: Pioneers -- Oregon National Historic trail -- Diaries -- Juvenile literature.; Frontier and pioneer life -- Oregon National Historic Trail -- Juvenile literature.; Overland journeys to the Pacific -- Juvenile literature.; Pioneers.; Frontier and pioneer life -- West (U.S.); Overland journeys to the Pacific.; Oregon National Historic Trail -- Description and travel -- Juvenile literature.; Oregon National Historic Trail.
Genres: Diaries; Juvenile literature.
Description: Provides paintings, photographs, newspaper articles, and fictionalized diaries of real people who traveled the Oregon Trail throughout the nineteenth century.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 253-256) and index.
Table of contents: title: Wagon Train By-Laws, 1849; title: Articles of Agreement, 1864; title: Outfit for Oregon, 1847; title: Emigrant's guide to California, 1849; title: Prairie Traveler Handbook for Overland Travelers, 1859; title: Meeker's Memorandum of Outfit and Eatables, 1852; title: Narcissa Whitman, into the unknown, 1836; title: Thomas Jefferson Farnham, go west, young man! 1839; title: Jesse Applegate, a boy's grand adventure 1843; title: Catherine Sager, Oregon Trail orphan 1844; title: Abigail Scott, where many fond hopes have been laid 1852; title: Ezra Meeker, the trail was a battlefield 1852; title: Helen Stewart, oh dear, oh dear! This is going to Oregon 1853; title: Fincelius G. Burnett, army Indian fighter on the Overland Trail 1865; title: Mrs. Lucy Alice Ide, trail's end, thus we all are scattered 1878.