In 1853, the Larkin family loaded their covered wagon and headed west on the Oregon trail in search of a new life. How did they do it? What did they eat? How did they dress? How did they survive sickness or attacks from cattle thieves? Drawing on diaries and letters, and illustrated with photos of actual objects from the past, Daily Life in a Covered Wagon explores what life was really like on the wagon train. Full-color illustrations, b&w photos.
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Follow the Larkin family on their journey from Indiana to Oregon in 1853 in search of a more prosperous life. This book uses actual pictures of objects from the past, many drawings,and diary writings. Their journey took almost 5 months, the family had to travel over 2,000 miles.Some of the 24 chapters include The Wagon, Indian Country, Children's Activities, Crossing A River, Stopping At A fort, Sickness and Death. A greatly detailed book with an abundance of color pictures on every page. Fantastic!!
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I bought this book for myself while researching our family history. It helped me fill-out the lives of our long-gone family members who travelled and lived in this way for months at a time while opening lands from Massassachusets to Virginia to North Carolina to Tennessee to Texas to California. It was a great help in turning out a history that was more than names, places and dates.
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The "look inside" on this amazon page doesn't do this book justice. It's a wide and tall book - perfect to have lots of interesting information and good pictures on each page spread, which is usually about one topic. Some of the topics include a bio about members of a family (the only "fictional" part), a diagram of what the covered wagon was like (cool!), what went into the covered wagon, disease and death, entertainment, what children did, etc. The pictures (of real things) drew me in and made it really fun. I liked being able to "see" what it was like. It made me feel like I was there.
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- A Nation Torn: The Story of How the Civil War Began (Young Readers' History of the Civil War) by Delia Ray in Back Matter
- Bound for Oregon by Jean Van Leeuwen in Back Matter
- Alexander Graham Bell (Inventors) by Paul Joseph on page 45
- Trouble River by Betsy Byars in Back Matter
- The Cabin Faced West by Jean Fritz in Back Matter
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- Bridges to Reading, 36: Teaching Reading Skills with Children's Literature by Suzanne I. Barchers on page 66, page 133, and page 141
- Skillet Bread, Sourdough and Vinegar Pie by Loretta Frances Ichord in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Pathways to Independence: Reading, Writing, and Learning in Grades 3-8 by Karen Broaddus on page 233
- Choices & changes in life, school, and work, grade 5-6 by National Council on Economic Education on page 144
- Daniel Boone (History Maker Bios (Lerner)) by Candice F. Ransom in Back Matter
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