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The children's book On to Oregon! by Honoré Morrow is a fictionalized account of the Sager children. [ 9 ] The actors Harold Daye and Rickie Sorensen played John and Francis Sager in the 1958 episode, "Head of the House", of the syndicated anthology series , Death Valley Days , hosted by Stanley Andrews .
It was based on a true story detailed in the book On to Oregon. ... In the 1840s the Sager family treks from Missouri to Oregon. After the deaths of both parents ...
The Oregon Trail: Sketches of Prairie and Rocky Mountain Life (also published as The California & Oregon Trail) is a book written by Francis Parkman.It was initially serialized in twenty-one installments in Knickerbocker's Magazine (1847–49) and subsequently published as a book in 1849.
Ezra Morgan Meeker [a] (December 29, 1830 – December 3, 1928) was an American pioneer who traveled the Oregon Trail by ox-drawn wagon as a young man, migrating from Iowa to the Pacific Coast.
The story of the Oregon Trail inspired the educational video game series The Oregon Trail, which became widely popular in the 1980s and early 1990s. In 2014, a musical named The Trail to Oregon! , based on The Oregon Trail game, with music and lyrics by Jeff Blim and a book by Jeff Blim, Nick Lang and Matt Lang was performed in Chicago and ...
The preface for 1001 Children's Books You Must Read Before You Grow Up is by children's illustrator and author Quentin Blake and introduction by Julia Eccleshare. [2] There is an index of titles, arranged alphabetically, and an index by author/illustrator, arranged alphabetically too, but by author/illustrator, not by title of book.
She also published some books based on real people, such as The Bounces of Cynthiann, about the orphaned Bounce children who traveled the Applegate Trail and became part of Dallas, Oregon's history [12] and Wheels West: The Story of Tabitha Brown [13] about the woman who traveled the Oregon Trail and founded what would become Pacific University ...
Francis Parkman Jr. (September 16, 1823 – November 8, 1893) was an American historian, best known as author of The Oregon Trail: Sketches of Prairie and Rocky-Mountain Life and his monumental seven-volume France and England in North America. These works are still valued as historical sources and as literature.