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1) Children of the westward trail

Author

Stefoff, Rebecca

Accelerated Reader

IL: MG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 3

Language

English

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Describes what life was like for those children who were uprooted from their midwestern homes and transported by their families across the frontier in wagons and on horseback.

2) The opening of the West

Author

Stefoff, Rebecca

Series

American voices from--

Pub. Date

[2003]

Accelerated Reader

IL: MG - BL: 7.7 - AR Pts: 4

Language

English

Description

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Presents the history of the westward expansion of the United States in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries through excerpts from letters, newspaper articles, journal entries, and laws of the time.

3) Women Pioneers

Author

Stefoff, Rebecca

Series

American profiles

Pub. Date

1995.

Language

English

Description

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Profiles nine women who made the trek west as young girls, as wives, as widows, and as single women to settle on the Western frontier from Illinois to Oregon, from Minnesota to California.

4) The Oregon Trail in American history

Author

Stefoff, Rebecca

Series

In American history

Pub. Date

1997.

Accelerated Reader

IL: MG - BL: 7.1 - AR Pts: 3

Language

English

Description

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Explores the great westward migration on the Oregon Trail in the nineteenth century and the experiences of those who traveled that way.

5) Lewis and Clark

Author

Stefoff, Rebecca

Series

Junior world biographies

Pub. Date

[1992]

Accelerated Reader

IL: MG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 1

Language

English

Description

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A biography of the two men who led the two and one-half year expedition that explored the Louisiana Purchase territory and the Pacific Northwest from St. Louis to the mouth of the Columbia River.