The journal of Jedediah Barstow : an emigrant on the Oregon Trail /
by Ellen Levine.
- New York : Scholastic, 2002.
- 172 p. : ill. ; 20 cm. + 1 fold-out map.
- My name is America Dear America .
In his 1845 diary, thirteen-year-old orphan Jedediah describes his wagon train journey to Oregon, in which he confronts rivers and sandy plains, bears and rattlesnakes, and the challenges of living with his fellow travelers. Includes historical notes.
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Overland journeys to the Pacific--Fiction. Orphans--Fiction. Frontier and pioneer life--Fiction.--West (U.S.) Diaries--Fiction.