West along the wagon road, 1852

by Laurie Lawlor

First published 1998 · 182 pages

About this book

Eleven-year-old Harriet "Duck" Scott, who isn't nearly as ladylike as her older sisters, finds many opportunities for adventure during an 1852 wagon train trip from Illinois to Oregon Territory, as her family deals with the loss of loved ones, quicksand, and a horse thief.

  • Fiction
  • Frontier and pioneer life
  • Frontier and pioneer life in fiction
  • Juvenile fiction
  • Sisters in fiction
  • Sisters
  • Overland journeys to the Pacific
  • Oregon Trail in fiction

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