Pioneers | Pioneers
Jul.02.2009
An adaptation of Marion Russell's book Land of Enchantment describes her eventful 1852 journey with her mother and brother from Kansas to California over the Santa Fe trail in a large wagon train.
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Jul.02.2009
Tells the life story of the author of the "Little House" books from her childhood in Wisconsin to her death at Rocky Ridge Farm at the age of ninety.
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Jul.02.2009
Examines Laura Ingalls Wilder's life as a pioneer girl and her work as a writer describing that life for others.
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Jul.01.2009
Among the tens of thousands of pioneers who left home in covered wagons in the 1800s, headed for the West in hopes of fertile land, gold, or escape from religious or racial persecution, some forty thousand were children. Though the hardships and dangers of the trail were many, these children also...
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Jun.29.2009
Can Moses Schallenberger, a 17 year old, survive a winter alone in the mountains of California near present-day Donner Lake? This is a true covered-wagon survival story set in 1844.
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Jan.04.2008
In 1846 several hundred wagons set out from Independence, Missouri, to follow the California Trail nearly two thousand miles across unpopulated prairies, up sluggish and seemingly endless rivers, and through the Rocky Mountains over the Continental Divide. There, where the water flowed west to the...
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