Lewis and Clark

1. Trail Tribes. This site studies the Lewis and Clark Expedition and cultural changes since the journey. Native American, historical, and scientific perspectives are presented. Select a section of the map to access video clips and information on traditional and contemporary culture of the area. Tribes discussed include the Lakota, Mandan, Hidatsa, Arikara, Blackfoot, Shoshone, Bannock, Umatilla, Walla Walla, Cayuse, and Chinook. From the University of Montana-Missoula. http://www.traintribes.org/umatilla/whos-who.htm#cayuse

Dewey Numbers:

• 978 - Oregon Trail

Non-Fiction:

• 392 -  Williams, Jacqueline B. Wagon wheel kitchens: food on the Oregon trail. University Press of Kansas, c1993., 222p
  Re-creates the highs and lows of cooking and eating on the Oregon Trail.
  
  
• 394.1 -  Gunderson, Mary.  Oregon trail cooking. Blue Earth, c2000., RL 5.3, 32p
  Examines the history of the Oregon Trail, focusing on the types of foods eaten by westward-bound pioneers, and includes recipes, as well as advice on kitchen safety and cooking equipment.
• 978 -  Blashfield, Jean F. The Oregon Trail. Compass Point Books, 2000, c2001., RL 5.5, 48p
  An introductory history of the Oregon Trail and its significance in opening the West to settlers, including information on the people who opened the Trail, their reasons for going West, modes of transportation, and a description of a typical day on the Trail.
• 978 - Burger, James P. The Oregon Trail. PowerKids Press, 2002., RL 6.4, 24p
  Provides information about the Oregon Trail and the experiences of pioneers who set out to make the arduous journey in covered wagons during the 1800s.
• 978 - Crewe, Sabrina. The Oregon Trail. Gareth Stevens Pub., 2005., RL 5.7, 32p
  Examines the history of the Oregon Trail, a path that stretched over two thousand miles from Missouri to the Pacific Northwest, discusses the role of the trail in westward expansion, and looks at what it was like to travel the Oregon Trail.
• 978 - Dean, Arlan. The Oregon Trail: from Independence, Missouri, to Oregon City, Oregon. PowerKids Press, 2003., RL 4.2, 24p
  Describes the Oregon Trail and the pioneers who settled in the Pacific Northwest.
• 978 -  Francis, Dorothy Brenner. Courage on the Oregon Trail. Perfection Learning, c2003., RL 2.8, 40p
  Presents a fictional story about a nineteenth-century family's trek along the Oregon Trail, and describes the challenges and dangers people faced on the journey, presenting photos of real families.
• 978 - Isaacs, Sally Senzell, Life on the Oregon Trail. Heinemann Library, c2001., RL 5.4, 32p
  An introduction to what life was like on the Oregon Trail, describing the wagons, daily routines, food, clothing, Native Americans encountered on the way, and dangers.
• 978 - Landau, Elaine. The Oregon Trail. Children's Press, 2006., RL 5.7, 47p
  Describes the experiences of pioneers who set off along the Oregon Trail in the mid-nineteenth century in search of a better life in the unsettled West.
  RC: 4.5 3 Lexile: 790
• 978 - Moeller, Bill. The Oregon Trail: a photographic journey. Mountain Press Pub. Co., 2001., 199p
  Presents more than seventy modern photos of sites along the historic Oregon Trail along with quotations by its nineteenth-century travelers and descriptions by the authors/photographers; and also provides phone numbers and Web addresses for visitors' sites along the trail.

Fiction:

• Frazier, Neta Lohnes. The stout-hearted seven: orphaned on the Oregon Trail. Sterling, c2006., RL 5.5, 193p
  Recounts the adventures of the seven Sager children, orphaned during their journey to Oregon where they were adopted by Marcus and Narcissa Whitman.
• Gerrard, Roy. Wagons West! A young woman, her family and her neighbors team up and set off for better fortune out West in Oregon.
  
  
• Gregory, Kristiana. Across the wide and lonesome prairie: the Oregon Trail diary of Hattie Campbell. Scholastic, c1997., RL 5.2, 168p
  In her diary, thirteen-year-old Hattie chronicles her family's arduous 1847 journey from Missouri to Oregon on the Oregon Trail.
  RC: 5.2  Lexile: 940
  
  
• Hooks, William H. Pioneer Cat When a young pioneer girl smuggles a cat aboard the wagon train taking her family from Missouri to Oregon, it turns out to be very useful.
  
  
• Kudlinski, Kathleen V. Facing west : a story of the Oregon Trail.  Puffin Books,  c1994., RL 2.5, 58p
  As his family sets out from Missouri to Oregon, young Ben wonders whether he will have more trouble with the dangers of the journey or his debilitating asthma.
  RC: 3.9 3 Lexile: 500 
  
  
• Mercati, Cynthia. Wagons ho! : a diary of the Oregon Trail. Perfection Learning, c2000., RL 3.2, 56p
  Presents a series of fictional diary entries in which ten-year-old Liza describes her adventures traveling with her family in a covered wagon to Oregon in 1849.
  
  
• Moeri, Louise. Save Queen of Sheba. After miraculously surviving a Sioux Indian raid on the trail to Oregon, a brother and sister set out with few provisions to find the rest of the settlers
  
• Morrow, Honore. On to Oregon! The story of the epic journey of the Sager children by covered wagon from Missouri to Oregon in 1848.
  
  
• Paulsen, Gary. Mr. Tucket. In 1848, while on a wagon train headed for Oregon, fourteen-year-old Francis Tucket is kidnapped by Pawnee Indians.
  
  
• Stevens, Carla. Trouble for Lucy. As she and her family travel the Oregon Trail in 1843, Lucy's puppies persist in creating trouble.
  
  
• Van Leeuwen, Jean. Bound for Oregon. A fictionalized account of the journey made by nine-year-old Mary Ellen Todd and her family from their home in Arkansas westward over the Oregon Trail in 1852.

EALRs:

• 3.2.1 Understands and analyzes how the environment affects cultural groups and how cultural groups affect the environment.
• 5.4.1 Draws conclusions using at least two clear, specific and accurate examples in a paper or presentation.
• 3.1.1 Understands and applies how maps and globes are used to display the regions of North America in the past and present.
• 5.4.2 Prepares a list of resources, including the title and author for each source.

Page prepared by Trish Henry, Prairie View Elementary

thenry@mead.k12.wa.us