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Diaries Fiction Donner Party Fiction Frontier and pioneer life West (U.S.) Fiction Historical fiction Oregon National Historic Trail Fiction Oregon National Historic Trail Juvenile fiction Orphans Fiction Orphans Juvenile fiction Overland journeys to the Pacific Fiction West (U.S.) FictionPhilbrick, W. R. (W. Rodman)
Summary: Douglas Deeds, a fifteen-year-old orphan, keeps a journal of his travels by wagon train as a member of the ill-fated Donner Party, which became stranded in the Sierra Nevada mountains in the winter of 1846-47.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic 2001
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Summary: 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.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic 2002