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008 940928s1995 coua b 001 0 eng
010 $a 94038427
020 $a0813320267 (hardcover)
035 $a(OCoLC)31328427
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050 00 $aF596$b.W467 1995
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100 1 $aWerner, Emmy E.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n81043421
245 10 $aPioneer children on the journey west /$cEmmy E. Werner.
260 $aBoulder, Colo. :$bWestview Press,$c1995.
263 $a9503
300 $axii, 202 pages :$billustrations ;$c23 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
520 $aBetween 1841 and 1865, some forty thousand children participated in the great overland journeys from the banks of the Missouri River to the shores of the Pacific Ocean. In this engaging book, Emmy Werner gives 120 of these young emigrants, ranging from ages four to seventeen, a chance to tell the stories of their journeys west.
520 8 $aIncorporating primary materials in the form of diaries, letters, journals, and reminiscences that are by turns humorous and heartrending, the author tells a timeless tale of human resilience. For six months or more, the young travelers traversed two thousand miles of uncharted prairies, deserts, and mountain ranges. Some became part of makeshift families; others adopted the task of keeping younger siblings alive.
520 8 $aThey encountered strangers who risked their own lives for the youngsters and guides whose erroneous advice led to detours and desolation. The children endured excessive heat and cold and often suffered from cholera, dysentery, fever, and scurvy. They also faced thirst and starvation, cannibalism among famished members of their own parties, kidnappings, and the deaths of family members and friends.
520 8 $aFrom the teenaged Nancy Kelsey, who carried her infant daughter across the Sierra Nevada in 1841, to the survivors of the ill-fated Donner party in 1846-1847, the Gold Rush orphans of 1849, and the youngsters who crossed Death Valley and the southwestern deserts in the 1850s, the eyewitness accounts of these pioneer children speak of fortitude, faith, and invincibility in the face of great odds.
650 0 $aPioneer children$zWest (U.S.)$xHistory.
650 0 $aFrontier and pioneer life$zWest (U.S.)$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008104177
650 0 $aOverland journeys to the Pacific.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85096196
852 00 $bglx$hF596$i.W467 1995