Title If you traveled west in a covered wagon / by Ellen Levine ; illustrated by Elroy Freem.

Imprint

New York : Scholastic, 1992.

Copies

Location	Call No.	Status
Bloomfield, Prosser Library - Children's Department	J973 IF (IF YOU...)	Storage
Bristol, Main Library - Children's Department	J978 LEV	Check Shelf
Enfield, Main Library - Children's Department	J 978 LEV	DUE 02-20-24 Billed
Granby, Main Library - Children's Room	J978 LEV	Check Shelf
Portland Public Library - Children's Department	J 978 LEV	Check Shelf
South Windsor Public Library - Children's Department	J978 L57I	Check Shelf
West Hartford, Noah Webster Library - Children's Department	J BRAINY BUNDLES -- IF YOU LIVED...KIT 1	Check Shelf
Windsor, Main Library - Children's Department	J978.02 LE	Check Shelf

Description	80 pages : color illustrations ; 20 x 23 cm
Summary	Tells you what it was like to be a pioneer and travel west to Oregon in the 1840s.
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? --What would you eat? -- How did yo umake the buffalo meat last a long time? -- How did you build a fire if you didn't have any wood? -- What happened if you met Indians on the trail? -- Would you go to school during the trip? -- What chores would you have to do? -- Could you have fun on the trip? -- Would you see any wild animals? -- Could you send a letter or receive one? -- If you ran out of supplies, could you get more? -- Was it hard driving the wagons over mountains? -- Without road signs, how would you know where you were? -- What is the Continental Divide? -- What special tricks of the trail did the pioneers learn? -- How do we know what it was like to travel West in a covered wagon? -- Is there anything left of the old Oregon Trail? -- Index
Study Program	Reading Counts RC: P: 3.9 L860: 3.
	Accelerated Reader Grades K-4 5.2 1 SD Quiz 9516 English non-fiction, vocabulary quiz available.
Subject	Pioneers.
	Overland journeys to the Pacific -- Juvenile literature.
	Frontier and pioneer life -- West (U.S.) -- Juvenile literature.
	Oregon National Historic Trail -- Juvenile literature.
	Overland journeys to the Pacific.
	covered wagon -- West (U.S.)
	Frontier and pioneer life. (OCoLC)fst00935370
	Overland journeys to the Pacific. (OCoLC)fst01049347
	United States -- Oregon National Historic Trail. (OCoLC)fst01289519
	West United States. (OCoLC)fst01243255
	Frontier and pioneer life.
Genre/Form	Literature. (OCoLC)fst01921716
	Juvenile works. (OCoLC)fst01411637
	Juvenile literature.
	Literature.
Added Author	Freem, Elroy, illustrator.
ISBN	0590451588 (pbk.)
	9780590451581 (pbk.)
	0808579231
	9780808579236

-->

Permanent Link

Add a Review

Title If you traveled west in a covered wagon / by Ellen Levine ; illustrated by Elroy Freem.

Copies

Library Links

Search Tools

Language Settings