Traveling
the Oregon Trail
Content Pathfinder
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Name:
Linda Smith
School: McCord Middle School
Workshop
Location: Columbus
Title of Companion Content Pathfinder:
Traveling the Oregon Trail
Grade Level:
8
Curriculum/Subject Area: Social Studies
Specific
Topic: Travel on the trails west during the
1800bs
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| Plan
Your Journey West on the Oregon Trail |
At
the Library:
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| Browse
the shelves of the library in these Dewey
categories |
917.8
Description and Travel b Oregon Trail
978.02 Trails
West
388 Transportation
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| Try
these Subject Headings |
Pioneer
children
Pioneers
Overland journeys to the
Pacific
Frontier and pioneer life West (U.S.)
Oregon
National Historic Trail Description and travel
Trails West
(U.S.) History 19th Century
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| Books: |
General
Encyclopedias
Utley, Robert Marshall. The American
West: A Multicultural Encyclopedia. Grolier,
1995.
Moulton, Candy Vyvey. Wagon wheels: a
contemporary journey on the Oregon Trail. High Plains Press,
1996.
Hunsaker, Joyce Badgley. Seeing the elephant:
the many voices of the Oregon Trail. Texas Tech University
Press, 2003.
Kimball, Violet T. Stories of young
pioneers in their own words. Mountain Press Pub. Co.,
2000.
Freedman, Russell. Children of the Wild West.
Clarion Books, 1983.
Press, Petra. A Multicultural
Portrait of the Move West. Marshall Cavendish,
1984.
Erickson, Paul. Daily Life in a Covered Wagon.
Puffin Books, 1994.
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| Electronic
Resources: |
| World
Book Online |
| Annals
of American History at INFOHIO.org |
| Websites: |
The
Oregon Trail
Website developed by the creators of the PBS
documentary film The Oregon
Trail
www.isu.edu/~trinmich/oregontrail.html
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End
of the Oregon Trail Interpretive Center
This website is by
the Oregon Trail Foundation and includes a library of
historical resources on the Oregon Trail and the early period
of settlement in the Pacific
Northwest.
http://www.endoftheoregontrail.org/index.html
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The
Conestoga Area Historical Society b The Covered
Wagon
http://www.rootsweb.com/~pacahs/wagon.htm
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The
Library of Congress Memory Project
This site has
photographs, diaries, memoirs from U.S. history. Search on The
Oregon
Trail.
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/amhome.html
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The
Oregon Trail
Museum
http://www.odot.state.or.us/ssbpublic/fleet/museum/OT/
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