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Their magic tree house takes Jack and Annie back to the Wild West, where they experience excitement and danger and try to solve a riddle.

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.

Fifteen-year-old Francis and the two children he has adopted travel across the Old West, evade Comancheros, discover a treasure, and wind up rich beyond their wildest dreams.

Francis Tucket, Lottie, and Billy have survived many hair-raising adventures, joined together by their goal to find the family Francis lost when he was kidnapped from a wagon train on the Oregon Trail. And now they are also joined by a secret -- the gold they discovered in a Spanish grave. This time, the trio meets up with a British adventurer and bloodthirsty ex-soldiers, and has a tragic, heroic encounter with Jason Grimes, the mountain man. In...

May-May and Rose, the singing, dancing Golly sisters, travel west by covered wagon, entertaining people along the way.

In her diary, thirteen-year-old Hattie chronicles her family's arduous 1847 journey from Missouri to Oregon on the Oregon Trail.

In order to seek revenge on the Sackett family whom she believes destroyed her father, Laura Pritts Sackett dupes her brother-in-law Tell into undertaking a deadly mission through Apache territory to search for her kidnapped son.

The Golly Sisters, May-May and Rose, share further adventures as they take their traveling show through the West.

Twins Liz and Lenny, along with their time-traveling grandmother, join a group of pioneers journeying west on the Oregon Trail in 1843.

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.