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Frontier and pioneer life Oregon National Historic Trail Juvenile literature Large type books Oregon National Historic Trail Juvenile literature Overland journeys to the Pacific Overland journeys to the Pacific Juvenile literature United States Oregon National Historic Trail Wagon trains Wagon trains Fiction Wagon trains Juvenile fiction West United StatesSummary: Tom Bodett explores the trails that extended America's frontiers. He follows the footsteps and wagon ruts of rugged pioneers, dauntless homesteaders, reclusive mountain men, and stop-at-nothing gold hunters as they explored, settled, and worked the new land.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Questar 2002
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Wiley, Jesse
Summary: It's 1850, and you are setting off on the treacherous Oregon Trail. In this first book of four, your goal is to get you and your family to Chimney Rock on time. But many dangers await you on the journey ahead. Wild animals, natural disasters, sickness, and other obstacles stand between you and your destination. Which path will get you safely across the prairie? With more than twenty possible...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2018
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: A wagon train of three families has hired mountain man Stephen Meek to guide them over the Cascade Mountains. Claiming to know a shortcut, Meek leads the group on an unmarked path across the high plain desert, only to become lost in the dry rock and sage. Over the coming days, the emigrants face the scourges of hunger, thirst, and their own lack of faith in each other's instincts for survival....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Oscilloscope Pictures 2011
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD + BLU-RAY DRAMA MEEHarness, Cheryl.
Summary: Reveals what really happened when Narcissa Whitman and her husband, Marcus, embarked on a perilous quest through the untamed Oregon Trail to spread the word of the Bible to the Indians.
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Publisher / Publication Date: National Geographic Society 2006
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 WHISummary: Today, travelers cross the Mackinac Straits without ever leaving their cars, but until 1957 all traffic was carried across the Straits by a fleet of five ships. This is the story of that fleet of ferries and their predecessors that formed the first link between Michigan's two peninsulas. The carferries operated along with the famous train ferry Chief Wawatam. While the "Chief" operated into...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mighty Mac Films 2006
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Place a hold to request this item.Cline-Ransome, Lesa
Summary: "In the 1870s, a Black family undertakes a perilous wagon journey westward for a tenuous shot at freedom in Nebraska"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Holiday House 2024
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC CLISummary: Building the Mighty Mac: The story of the building of the Mackinac Bridge.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mighty Mac Films 2009
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD 977 BUICopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV BUISummary: "This meditation on cinema's past from Decasia director Bill Morrison pieces together the bizarre true history of a long-lost collection of 533 nitrate film prints from the early 1900s. Located just south of the Arctic Circle, Dawson City was settled in 1896 and became the center of the Canadian Gold Rush that brough 100,000 prospectors to the area. It was also the final stop for a distribution...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kino Lorber 2017
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC DAWGray, Charlotte
Contents: Color and chaos. Arctic secrets, June 1896 -- Bill Haskell's dreams of gold, 1890-1896 -- Mob justice and wild dogs, June-November, 1896 -- "Five dollars to the pan!" October 1896-April 1897 -- Sourdough success, April-June 1897 -- Mining the miners. Father Judge's flock, May-June 1897 -- Belinda Mulrooney stakes her claim, June 1897 -- Jack London catches Klondicitis, July-October 1897 --...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Counterpoint 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 971.9 GRAH. Belden & Co
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mika Silk Screening 1972
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1 available in Genealogy Atlas Stand, Call number: R GEN 712.913 ILLVaughan, Robert
Summary: "When sixteen-year-old Matt Logan and his friend Danny Dugan ran away from an orphanage, they went west. There, they met Jim Bridger, among other mountain men, and became fur trappers. But the market for beaver plews died out, and the two friends took on jobs as wagon train guides. They eventually separated, hoping to meet again. One of the trains Matt picks up in Independence began its journey...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2023
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1 available in New Large Print, Call number: LP FIC VAUBlum, Howard.
Summary: Set in the last decade of the nineteenth century, this true tale of the last frontier and the Yukon Gold Rush describes a mystery surrounding the disappearance of gold bars stolen from the Treadmill Mine in Juneau, Alaska. Without clues, it appears the crime may never be solved, but Charlie Siringo of the Pinkerton Agency sets out on a rugged cross-country odyssey to catch the thieves.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Trade 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 978.02 BLUCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Hist US BlumIsaacs, Sally Senzell
Summary: An introduction to what life was like on the Oregon Trail, describing the wagons, daily routines, food, clothing, Native Americans encountered on the way, and dangers.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Heinemann Library 2001
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 978.02 ISAFriedman, Mel
Summary: Discusses how the United States gained ownership of the Oregon Territory, who discovered the best routes west, and the obstacles pioneers faced on their journeys along the Oregon Trail.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Children's Press 2013
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 917.804 FRICopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 978.02 FRIFleming, Candace
Summary: How did two teenagers brutally murder an innocent child ... and why? And how did their brilliant lawyer save them from the death penalty in 1920s Chicago? Written by a prolific master of narrative nonfiction, this is a compulsively readable true-crime story based on an event dubbed the "crime of the century." In 1924, eighteen-year-old college students Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb made a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Anne Schwartz Books 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 364.152 FLECopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 364.152 FLESummary: A band of hardy pioneers, led by guide Breck Coleman, makes its perilous way along the Oregon Trail, braving bison, treacherous river crossings, blizzards and Indian attacks. Filmed in two versions simultaneously, each scene had to be shot twice, once for the widescreen process Grandeur in 70mm, and again for the standard 35mm version.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2012
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1 available in Western DVDs, Call number: DVD + BLU-RAY WESTERN BIGCastner, Brian
Summary: "A gripping and wholly original account of the epic human tragedy that was the great Klondike Gold Rush of 1897-1898"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 971.9 CASGunderson, Mary.
Summary: Discusses the everyday life, family roles, cooking methods, and common foods of pioneers who traveled west on the Oregon Trail during the nineteenth century. Includes recipes.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Blue Earth Books 2000
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 641.5978 GUNByron, M. Christine
Contents: The Mackinac Straits Region -- Mackinaw City -- Crossing the Straits -- St. Ignace -- Mackinac Island.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Arbutus Press 2007
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1 available in Reference, Call number: NEL 977.4923 BRY1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: OVS 977.4923 BYR
Djanikian, Ariel
Summary: The middle daughter of struggling California fruit farmers, Alice Bush is accustomed to feeling inferior and destitute. When her elder sister's husband strikes a vein of gold in the Yukon Territory, Alice seizes control of her destiny by joining a wave of white settlers making the dangerous trek to the Klondike. By luck and circumstance Alice becomes tightly intertwined in her sister and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2023
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC DJARitter, Rhoda.
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Publisher / Publication Date: printed by the Leelanau Enterprise 1996
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1 available in Nelson Room, Call number: NEL 917.74 RITFields-Black, Edda L.
Summary: "In the spring and summer of 1863, as the outcome of the Civil War, and with it the fate of the nation, hung in the balance, Union forces struggled to capture the offensive. One promising place was along the coastal waters of South Carolina. A year and a half earlier, the Union Navy had taken the port cities of Port Royal and Beaufort, where the Union then made plans to attack the expansive...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 2024
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1 available in New Non-fiction, Call number: 973.7 FIEDallas, Sandra
Summary: "It's February, 1852, and all around Chicago, Maggie sees postings soliciting 'eligible women' to travel to the gold mines of Goosetown. A young seamstress with a small daughter, she has nothing to lose. She joins forty-three other women and two pious reverends on the dangerous 2,000-mile journey west. None are prepared for the hardships they face on the trek or for the strengths they didn't...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2020
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC DALZimmerman, James M.
Summary: "In 1923 Shanghai, native and foreign travelers alike are enthralled by the establishment of a new railway line to distant Peking. With this new line comes the Peking Express, a luxurious express train on the cutting edge of China's continental transportation. Among those drawn to the train are oil heiress Lucy Aldrich, journalist John Benjamin Powell, and vacationing Army Majors Roland Pinger...
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Publisher / Publication Date: PublicAffairs, Hachette Book Group 2023