In 1853, Amelia Stewart Knight left Iowa with her husband and seven children to seek a new life in the untamed wilderness of the Oregon Territory. Her authentic diary offers a rare firsthand glimpse of the trip. Traveling by covered wagon, the family faces terrible weather, rough roads, and sickness with courage and determination. In spite of many hardships, the pioneers never lose hope. Michael McCurdy's colored scratchboard art brings the settlement of the West vividly to life, and young readers will be fascinated by this true account of a dangerous and exciting journey.
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Knight's 1853 journey from Iowa to Oregon takes her and her large family across riverbeds and mountains, into trade with Indians and conflict with outlaws. Ages 7-10. (July)
Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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Gr. 2-5. McCurdy's attractive artwork, strong woodcuts tinted with watercolor washes, decorates nearly every page of this book, which shows a pioneer family's journey from Iowa to Oregon in 1853. The story is told in "adapted" excerpts from the journal of Amelia Stewart Knight, a wife and mother who looked after her brood of seven children, gave birth to her eighth on the trail, and still found time to write. Although the telling is matter-of-fact, the various discomforts and dangers of the trip become apparent as the tale unfolds: kids get the mumps, everyone gets cold and wet and muddy, oxen go lame, rivers must be crossed with or without bridges, daughter Lucy gets left behind at one point (she's later returned to her family), and son Chat falls out of the wagon and is nearly run over by a wheel. The colorful, rhythmic illustrations dramatize events along the trail. The introduction fills in some details of wagon-train travel, but it omits background information on the diary itself, such as where it was found and how freely it was adapted. Still, teachers seeking materials on the Oregon Trail will find this a lively, useful resource. Carolyn Phelan
--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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I was disappointed to find that this book was oddly worded and illustrated more like a children's book, rather than a chronicle of pioneer days. The drawings were bizarre and cartoon-like, and the book was very thin, as well.
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