Title: Across the plains in 1844
Description: Pioneer life seen through the eyes of a young girl.

Catherine Sager captured her family's trip across the American West in her journal. Her story describes the terrible journey which the early Oregon settlers made in order to settle and colonise a new territory with many hardships and heartaches along the way. 

This account today is regarded as one of the most authentic accounts of the American westward migration.
Subjects: Biography, Description and travel, Pioneers, Women pioneers, Overland journeys to the Pacific, History
Places: Pacific Northwest, West (U.S.), Oregon National Historic Trail
People: Marcus Whitman (1802-1847), Catherine Sager (1835-1910), Narcissa Prentiss Whitman (1808-1847)
Time periods: To 1848