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O'Brien, Mary Barmeyer.
Toward the Setting Sun :
Pioneer Girls Traveling the Overland Trails /
Mary Barmeyer O'Brien.
Helena, Mont :
TwoDot,
1999.
xv, 94 pages :
illustrations, map ;
23 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 85-89) and index.
Snowbound in the Sierras: The Story of Virginia Reed -- To the Land of Gold and Italian Skies: The Story of Sallie Hester -- Wild Roses for Louvina: The Story of Mary Ellen Todd -- Heartbreak and Hope on the Applegate Trail: The Story of Lucy Ann Henderson -- And in My Heart the Meadow Lark Still Gaily, Sweetly Sings: The Story of Laura Elizabeth Ingalls -- A Child Bride: The Story of Mary Perry -- Orphaned on the Oregon Trail: The Story of Catherine Sager -- One Stew Kettle to Her Name: The Story of Martha Ann Morrison -- Trouble on the Gila Trail: The Stories of Susan Thompson and Olive Oatman.
Recounts the lives and experiences of ten girls who accompanied their families west in the nineteenth century, based on their diaries and other sources.
20010630.
Pioneer Children
West (U.S)
Biography.
Girls
West (U.S)
Biography.
Overland Journeys to the Pacific.
Frontier and Pioneer Life
West (U.S.)
Trails
West (U.S)
History
19th century.
West (U.S.)
Biography.
Biographies and Autobiographies.