Into the Western Winds: Pioneer Boys Traveling the Overland Trails

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	Into the Western Winds: Pioneer Boys Traveling the Overland Trails Mary Barmeyer O'Brien TwoDot, 2002 - 128 pages average customer review:based on 1 review view larger image
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This book chronicles the overland journeys of nine pioneer boys who went west by covered wagon in the mid-1800s. Taken from their letters, diaries, and later memoirs, these remarkable stories describe what it was like to be hungry enough to eat woodpeckers, brave enough to winter alone in the snowbound Sierra Nevada, cold enough to huddle beneath a sister's petticoat at night, and tough enough to push onward despite astounding odds. Trudging barefoot across hundreds of miles of harsh land, each of the boys selected for this collection found the resourcefulness to rise above the unusual circumstances of his overland journey. Whether traveling alone through the vast wilderness to bring food to his starving family like fourteen-year-old Octavius Pringle, struggling for days across Death Valley like six-year-old John Wells Brier, or boating the treacherous rapids of the Columbia River like young Jesse Applegate, each summoned the courage to help his family complete a remarkable trip west.

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Spirited stories of young westward emigrants

Heartfelt renderings of life along the Oregon/California Trails through the eyes of boys and adolescent young men. Mary Barmeyer O'Brien selects nine different diaries and memoirs of pioneering young men and paraphrases these diary excerpts with her own style of writing. Wonderfully done!
We read of seven year old Jesse Applegate and their Oregon bound wagon train of 1843 with their many hardships and misfortunes, including the drowning of his brother in the Columbia River.
Then there is seventeen year old Moses Schallenberger's wagon party of 1844, where due to circumstances of deep snows in the Sierra Nevada Mountains and being left behind to guard the wagons, he oftentimes was referred to as "Robinson Crusoe of the Sierra Nevada" because of his solitary existence in a make-shift log cabin for months.
The courageous fourteen year old Octavius Pringle in 1844 riding solo to get provisions back to his stranded family on the Applegate Cutoff.
Eleven year old Elisha Brooks in 1852 traveling hundreds of miles with only his mother and five siblings to California.
These young boys, along with their families, exemplify the strong, rugged, Herculean efforts these pioneers had to endure in order to reach the land of their dreams.
As seen through the eyes of youth, this is a different, but at the same time admirable way, to look at westward emigration.

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