Akron Public Library

"Settling the American West required true grit, fortitude, and when necessary, shedding blood. It also required men like Preacher and MacCallister to enforce peace in a land where the law was scarce--and justice was delivered from the barrel of a gun... Wagon trains carrying immigrants along the Oregon Trail are falling prey to outlaws. Most families surrender their valuables and goods peacefully, but anybody brave enough to resist gets a bullet....

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.

In 1843, Kate Winfield is among the first of what will be eventually 300,000 Americans who will travel thousands of miles up the Oregon Trail in search of a better life. Through perilous river crossings, blistering heat, choking dust clouds, freezing nights, and the tragic passing of her mother, Kate grows up emotionally and spiritually and begins to dream of becoming a medical missionary to the Inidians. But that dream is challenged when a plauge...

Presents accounts of a young man's travels on the Oregon Trail and his sojourn with the Oglala Indians.

Takes a humorous look at what it means to be an adult and at advice literature through a guide to the educational computer game "The Oregon Trail."