As a twelve-year-old Welsh immigrant carries a motherless baby along the Mormon Trail in 1856, she comes to love the baby as her own and fear the day the baby's father will reclaim her.
Discusses the experiences of people of the Mormon faith who left Nauvoo, Illinois, in 1846-47 and traveled nearly 1,300 miles through the frontier to find a safe haven to practice their religion in Utah.
When a young pioneer girl smuggles a cat aboard the wagon train taking her family from Missouri to Oregon, it turns out to be the best thing she could have done.
After her father dies in the fall of 1849, a little girl and her family follow Mr. Reed's wagon train west, discovering the challenges, excitement, and danger of the frontier on their way to their homestead in California.
Olivia Clark, a young girl who is moving with her family from Missouri to Oregon Territory during the middle of the nineteenth century, describes her five month journey traveling westward.
The family sets out on the Oregon Trail with wagons full of fledgling fruits trees to begin "the most daring adventure in the history of fruit." With rivers to ride, folks making fun, and rain causing a ruckus, will Delicious and her family make it to Oregon safely with Daddy's precious plants preserved?
