If you traveled west in a covered wagon

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Title:

If you traveled west in a covered wagon

Author:

Levine, Ellen.

Personal Author:

Levine, Ellen.

Publication Information:

New York : Scholastic, [1992]

Physical Description:

80 pages : color illustrations ; 20 x 24 cm

Summary:

Tells you what it was like to be a pioneer and travel west to Oregon in the 1840s.

General Note:

Includes index.

Language:

English

Contents:

What was the Oregon Territory? -- Why did some people want to travel all the way to Oregon? -- What was a covered wagon? -- What was a wagon train? -- Did anybody lead the wagon train? -- What was a "trail guide"? -- What kinds of people traveled West? -- What would your family bring in their covered wagon? -- What was the best time of year to start the trip? -- How would you cross rivers when there were no bridges? -- How far would you travel in a day? -- Would you ride in the wagon for the whole trip? -- What were the dangers and difficulties of the trip? -- Where would you sleep? -- What kinds of clothes did people wear?.

Reading Level:

860 Lexile.

Program Information:

Accelerated Reader AR LG 5.2 1.0 9516.

Reading Counts RC 3-5 3.9 3 Quiz: 05733 Guided reading level: Q.

Subject Term:

Overland journeys to the Pacific -- Juvenile literature.

Frontier and pioneer life -- West (U.S.) -- Juvenile literature.

Added Author:

Freem, Elroy,

ISBN:

9780590451581