Oregon-California Trails Association
524 S. Osage
P.O.Box 1019
Independence, Missouri 64051-0519
Telephone & Fax: (816)252-2276

The American Frontier: Pioneers, Settlers, and Cowboys 1800 - 1899

William C. Davis, 1992, University of Oklahoma Press

The Donner Party Chronicles

Frank Mullen Jr., with Photographs by Marilyn Newton, 1997 Nevada Humanities Committee

Empire Express: Building the First Transcontinental Railroad

David Haward Bain, 1999, Viking

My Heroes, My People: African Americans and Native Americans in the West

Morgan Monceaux and Ruth Katcher, 1999, Frances Foster Books

Indian School: Teaching the White Man's Way

Michael L. Cooper, 1999, Clarion Books

American Frontiers: Cultural Encounters and Continental Conquests

Gregory H. Nobles, 1997,Hill and Wang

Seven Trails West

Arthur King Peters, 1996 Abbeville Press

Pioneers and Trailblazers: Adventures of the Old West

Leonard J. Matthews, 1990, Derrydale Books

The Westerners: A Roundup of Pioneer Reminiscences

Compiled and annotated by John Myers Myers, 1969, University of Nebraska Press

Those Spirited Women of the Early West

Phyllis Zauner, 1989, Zanel Publications

Covered Wagon Women: Diaries & Letters from The Western Trails, 1852

The Oregon Trail

Edited and compiled by Kenneth L. Holmes & David C. Duniway; Introduction by Ruth R. Moynihan, 1997, University of Nebraska Press

Letters of a Woman Homesteader

Mary Barmeyer O'Brien, 1997, Twodot

Heart of the Trail: The Stories of Eight Wagon Train Women

Elinore Pruitt Stewart; Foreword by Gretel Ehrlich, Illustrations by N.C. Wyeth, 1914, Houghton Mifflin Company

The Pioneers Go West

George R. Stewart, 1954 (1982), Random House

Women's Voices from the Oregon Trail: The Times That Tried Women's Souls and A Guide to Women's History Along the Oregon Trail

Susan G. Butruille, 1993 Tamarack Books, Inc.

Women's Diaries of the Westward Journey

Lilian Schlissel 1982 Schocken Books - Excerpts of diaries and writings of women who crossed the plains

Historic Sites Along The Oregon Trail

Aubrey L. Haines 1981 The Patrice Press - This is the primary source book that describes each location of the fates. Landmarks and distances along the Oregon Trail

Pioneer Women - Voices from the Kansas frontier

Joanna L. Stratton 1981 Simon & Schuster - Source for students to read, daily life

Oregon Trail Curriculum Guide

available from Oregon-California Trails Association

An Authentic Wagon Train Journal of 1853

William Richard Brown

Prairie Traveler

Randolph P. Marcy - Originally published 1959, principle guide book for westward-bound emigrants. Filled with helpful information that was essential for safe passage west, available from the Oregon-California Trails Association

Women of the West

Cathy Luchetti & Carol Olwell 1982 Orion Books - The lifestyles of women in the west seen through their eyes, journey's, daily life, lots of pictures

The Oregon Trail

Francis Parkman - Story of his travels on the Oregon Trail, this is also available on tape

California Goldrush Country: 1848 - 1998

Leslie A. Kelly, 1997, Les Kelly Publications

Great Trails of the West

Richard Dunlop1971 Abingdon Press - Narrative account of modern travel on the Oregon Trail in search of old landmarks and monuments

An Overland Journey

Horace Greeley edited by Charles T. Duncan, 1964 Knopf - Newspaper editor's account of his journey across the Continent by rail & stagecoach)

Early Settler Activity Guide

Stenson, E. 1992

My Backyard History Book

Weitzmann, D. 1975

Frontier Home

Bial, R. 1993

To Be a Pioneer

Burns, P. and Hines, R. 1962

The West, An Illustrated History for Children

Duncan, D. 1996

Children of the Wild West

Freedman, R. 1983

If You Traveled West In a Covered Wagon

Ellen Levine

Food and Recipes of the Westward Expansion: Cooking Throughout American History

George Erdosh, 1997, PowerKids Press

Arts and Crafts...Includes Quilting Picture Books

The Josefina Quilt Story

Eleanor Coerr

The Patchwork Quilt

Valerie Flournoy

Eight Hands Round

Ann Whitford

The Rag Coat

Lauren Mills

The Patchwork Lady

Mary K Whittington

Sweet Clara and the Freedom Quilt

Deborah Hopkinson

The Boy and the Quilt

Shirley Kurtz

The Return of Morris Schumsky

Steven Schnur

The Mountains of Quilt

Nancy Willard and Tomie dePaola

Tar Beach

Faith Ringgold

Nine in One GRR! GRR!

Blia Xiong and Cathy Spagnoli

The Keeping Quilt

Patricia Polacco

14,287 Pieces of Fabric

Jean Ray Laury

O the Red Rose Tree

Patricia Beatty

Lavender

Karen Hesse

My Grandmother's Patchwork Quilt

Janet Bolton

Mrs. Noah's Patchwork Quilt

Janet Bolton

Patchwork Island

Karla Kushkin

Sam Johnson and the Blue Ribbon Quilt

Lisa Campbell Ernst

Luka's Quilt

Georgia Guback

Bess's Log Cabin Quilt

Anne Love

The Canada Geese Quilt

Natalie Kinsey-Warnack

A Cloak For The Dreamer

Aileen Friedman - one of Marilyn Burns' Brainy Day Books, which are written specifically to weave literature and math together

Texas Toys and Games

Abernethy, F. E. (Ed.)1989

Soap Science

Bell, J. L. 1993

Steven Caney's Toy Book

Caney, S. 1972

Historical Crafts

Oliver, M. T. 1994

Wagon Wheels

Brenner, B. 1993

Dandelions

Bunting, E. 1995

Going West

Van Leeuwen, J.

Save Queen of Sheba

Moeri

Prairie Songs

Pam Conrad

The Orphan Train Quartet

Joan Lowery Nixon

Little House Series

Wilder

Across the Great Divide

James

On to Oregon

Morrow

Cassie's Journey, Going West in the 1860's

Brett Harvey

Wagon Wheels

Barbara Brenner

Araminta's Paint Box

Karen Ackerman

Charlotte Murphy - scout

Birchwood MN
chukmurphy@aol.com

Better homes, Cross Stitch & country crafts, July/Aug 93

Cross stitch map of Oregon Trail

Historic Traveler, March 97

From Chimney Rock to Fort Laramie

Barbara Wagner
Novi, MI

Stout-Hearted Seven by Neta Lohnes Frazier

book, subtitled "The true adventure of the Sager children orphaned on the Oregon Trail in 1844"

Carolyn Novotny
Zion , IL

Homesteaders, True Tales of the Wild West (Rough & Ready Series)

book (Author - A.S. Gintzler)