Title: The journal of Jedediah Barstow, an emigrant on the Oregon Trail
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.
Subjects: Diaries, Fiction, Frontier and pioneer life, Juvenile fiction, Orphans, Overland journeys to the Pacific, Western stories, Children's fiction, Overland journeys to the pacific, fiction, Orphans, fiction, Frontier and pioneer life, fiction, Diaries, fiction, West (u.s.), fiction, Oregon national historic trail, fiction
Places: Oregon National Historic Trail, West (U.S.)