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Binding: PaperbackDewey Decimal Number: 917.8042 EAN: 9780140562125 ISBN: 0140562125 Label: Puffin Manufacturer: Puffin Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 48 Publication Date: July 01, 1997 Publisher: Puffin Reading Level: Ages 9-12 Studio: Puffin Related Items:
Browse for similar items by category: Click to Display Editorial Review: Product Description: In 1853, the Larkin family loaded their covered wagon and headed west on the Oregon trail in search of a new life. How did they do it? What did they eat? How did they dress? How did they survive sickness or attacks from cattle thieves? Drawing on diaries and letters, and illustrated with photos of actual objects from the past, Daily Life in a Covered Wagon explores what life was really like on the wagon train. Full-color illustrations, b&w photos. Average Rating:
 Rating:  - Good educational materialI bought this book for myself while researching our family history. It helped me fill-out the lives of our long-gone family members who travelled and lived in this way for months at a time while opening lands from Massassachusets to Virginia to North Carolina to Tennessee to Texas to California. It was a great help in turning out a history that was more than names, places and dates. Rating:  - Historically inaccurate?The author states that in the 1840s, the size of the United States doubled. This is an exaggeration. The author states that Indians charged tolls for crossing bridges. HUH?? I have never heard a reference to this before, and I am a teacher. I Googled it and found nothing. Rating:  - Family TravelFollow the Larkin family on their journey from Indiana to Oregon in 1853 in search of a more prosperous life. This book uses actual pictures of objects from the past, many drawings,and diary writings. Their journey took almost 5 months, the family had to travel over 2,000 miles.Some of the 24 chapters include The Wagon, Indian Country, Children's Activities, Crossing A River, Stopping At A fort, Sickness and Death. A greatly detailed book with an abundance of color pictures on every page. Fantastic!! 
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