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Overland journeys to the Pacific

Long Day's Journey

Carlos A. Schwantes

Chronicles the age of the steamboat and the stagecoach in America's northwest region, examining technological, economic, and social aspects and presenting more than two hundred photos and other illust

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Mr. Tucket

Gary Paulsen

In 1848, while on a wagon train headed for Oregon, fourteen-year-old Francis Tucket is kidnapped by Pawnee Indians and then falls in with a one-armed trapper who teaches him how to live in the wild.

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