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Across the Wide and Lonesome Prairie: The Oregon Trail Diary of Hattie Campbell, 1847 (Dear America Series)

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I first read this book in March 1997 when it first came out. Even after three and a half years, and the reading of many more books, this remains of my favorite books ever. It brings the Oregon Trail to life and puts faces on the countless brave pioneers who braved the hardships of the trail to make new lives in the west. The narrator is a fictional thirteen-year-old farm girl from Missouri, Hattie Campbell. Through her diary, written in a voice that truly sounds as if it belongs to a young girl from that time, the reader experiances the events of Hattie's journey west - her friendship with Pepper, a fourteen-year-old girl from the wagon train, the beginnings of a romance with Pepper's brother Wade, and many others. Hattie was a character that I really came to care about, and I was sad to put the book down when it was finished, but since then, I have read it several more times. Kristiana Gregory is an amazing author that has given a distinct voice to each of her narrators in this book and her two other Dear America books. I hope she writes another Dear America book soon; she's one of my favorite authors from the series. I highly reccomend this book to historical fiction fans.

This book was tragic But adventureous. I felt like I was Hattie. It is about a girl who leaves her hometown in Booneville, Missora and heads out west to Oregon. Their are a lot of deaths in the story but none of Hattie's family members died on the Oergon trail so don't worry. I'm eight and I didn't have nightmares for a week but if I were you I would not let anybody under eight read this. they may get scared. There are great characters like Pepper, Gideon, Wade, Ben, Jake and of course Hattie Campell. If you like adventure and danger I recomend this book to you.

I love dear america books, but this one is definantly my favorite. it gives a good picture of the hardships a pioneer on the oregan trail would have to experiance.in the book, Hattie and her parents leave their home to go west on the oregon trail. Hattie doesn't want to leave her best friend or the graves of her baby sisters. the diary tells all about the journey, her sorrows and her joys, her new friends and her new enemies. unlike in some of the dear america diaries, some of Hattie's dreams do come true. I would really recomend this book to anyone, but be prepared, this book is sad.

Across the Wide and Lonesome Prairie is one of my favorite books, and definetely my favorite on the Oregon Trail! I first read this in 1997 when it came out, and I've read it many times since then.

This book tells the story, in diary form, of 13 year old Hattie Campbell. It starts out in 1847, in Missouri, when her family decides to travel with a wagon train to Oregon. There are river crossings, friendships, Indian encounters, deaths, marriages, and poisonings throughout the trip, but Hattie overcomes the hardships and grows into a young women.

This story tells history in a real and interesting way, and I would recommend it to almost all ages! If you liked this book, as I'm sure you will, you'd probably like the other books in the Dear America series, especially West to a Land of Plenty.

I thought the book Across the Wide and Lonesome Prairie was the most coolest book ever because it tells about the past and a lot of sad moments and happy.You can't even put the book down because it's so exciting and mind blowing to found out what happens next!I think the most intersing part in the book was that so much danger was ahead of them and that they can get married at a very young age! And the charcters in the book like Hattie Cambell ,who is 13 is a very caring person and worries about the lost kids and their mother.She can sometimes be jelous,judgemental about people but when she gets to know them she feels bad.Peper,Hatties friend who she meet on the way to oragen is 14 and is a shy person but when you get to know her she can be a chatterbox.She is a also a caring person.Peper and Hattie both worrie about the lost kids and their mother.on the way they see indians and cross a big rushig river

Across the Wide and Lonesome Prairie: The Oregon Trail Diary of Hattie Campbell by Kristiana Gregory, is a novel about a 14 year old girl and her family traveling west to Oregon. Hattie goes through everything you can think of. She goes through the emotion of love, hate, anger, and sadness. Of course she has a good time sometimes, but it was a hard struggel moving west. Some turned back and some went on. Did they go all the way? You will have to read it yourself and find out. The setting is all the way from Missouri all the way up the Oregon Trail. Tootles from Mayflower.

Across the wide and lonesome prairie is about Hattie Campbell & when she was on the Oregon Trail. Hattie's father & mother took Hattie And her Two (2) Brothers Jack & Ben away from there friends & hometown Booneville. Hattie calles her parents ma & pa. Hattie's ma & aunt told Hattie that every young lady should have a place to record their privet thoughts and gave her a journal. She writes in it almost every day. you should read This book, it is really good. I liked it because it helped me learn. You should get this book. Don't go past it! Pick it up and read the back to see if you like it. It deservs five(5)stars.

I really was amazed by the way Hattie dealt with all the joys and tragedies of traveling to Oregon. This book is a good starter for people who are hesitant to read Dear America diaries.

Hattie Campbell, her parent's, her aunt and uncle, and her two younger brothers leave their home to join a wagon train on the Oregon Trail. Hattie meets a girl named Pepper, and they become good friends. There are surprises along the way such as marriages, but there were also hardships like deaths, food poisoning, and robberies. Also, if you're the type of person who want's to know what happens after the end, this book has an epilogue (tells what happens after the end).

I am a 6th grader from Cornwall New York. The book I read was Across the Wide and Lonesome Prarie by Kristina Gregory. This book is mainly about a girl named Hattie Campbell starting a new life in Oregon recording everything that happens. During the book Hattie goes through major struggles to get to Oregon.Some struggles Hattie goes through is going through huge dry deserts and long fierce rivers. During these journeys Hattie's friends and family pass away. For Hattie and many others this is very emotional. The whole book they are going through diffrent challenges. One of my favorite parts is when they go through the biggest rivers during a storm and the indians chasing them.I think many people would enjoy the part when they travel through the mountains. This story never stops with the action.The problems just keeps on a going and going. I think anyone who reads this book will love it. I would definetly recomend this book to anyone. If you are looking for a great book I suggest you read this amazing book. If you feel this book does not fit your style than try one of the other Dear America books in the collection.