Oregon Trail (eBook)

Ollie's Great Adventure

Melanie Richardson Dundy (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2022
66 Seiten
Distributed By Ingram Spark (Verlag)
978-1-0880-5700-1 (ISBN)

Infos

Reviewed and endorsed by The Oregon-California Trails Association (OCTA), the End of the Trail Interpretive Center and Museum in Oregon City, and WyoHistory.org. First Place Winner of the Purple Dragonfly Book Award for Historical Fiction (2019).Who better to narrate the historic adventure of the Oregon Trail than the dedicated (and humorous) ox pulling the covered wagon from Missouri to Oregon in 1843.This informative children's story is narrated by Ollie, the ox pulling the covered wagon for six months over 2,000 miles. He pulls the wagon and the Tyler family, Mr. and Mrs. Tyler and their son, Johnny, on the six-month journey. Ollie Ox shares spellbinding adventures of climbing and descending steep hills, making dangerous river crossings, and meeting and trading with various Indian tribes.Beautiful photographs of well-known trail landmarks Ash Hollow, Courthouse Rock, Chimney Rock, Independence Rock, Devil's Gate and others appear throughout the book along with beautiful watercolors by William Henry Jackson.Included is a map from which children can learn, lists of supplies the Tylers needed for the trip, and details about covered wagons. It is estimated that 500,000 people made the 2,000 mile trek from Missouri to Oregon. Of that number about 40,000 were children. Formats: Kindle $4.99perfect bound paperback $12.95Hardback $21.95.website: ChildrensBooksByMelanie.com (no apostrophe in ';childrens' )

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 10.8.2022
• Illustrationen: Rachel McCoskey
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Kinder- / Jugendbuch ► Jugendbücher ab 12 Jahre
• Themenwelt: Kinder- / Jugendbuch ► Kinderbücher bis 11 Jahre
• Schlagworte: American History • CHILDREN'S BOOK COVERED WAGONS • CHILDREN'S BOOK MANIFEST DESTINY • CHILDREN'S BOOK OREGON TRAIL • covered wagons • Idaho history • I D history • ID history • Kansas history • KS history • Manifest Destiny • Missouri history • MO history • Nebraska history • NE history • NW history • oregon history • Oregon Trail • Oregon Trail • OR history • Pioneers • The Oregon Trail • U.S. History • U.S.History 1800 • U.S. History 19th censure • western migration • WY history • Wyoming history
• ISBN-10: 1-0880-5700-4 / 1088057004
• ISBN-13: 978-1-0880-5700-1 / 9781088057001