Daily Life in a Covered Wagon

Daily Life in a Covered Wagon

by Paul Erickson
Publisher: Puffin Books
Trade Paperback, 48 pages
Price: $9.99

Historical Setting: Oregon Trail, 1853 A. D.

In 1853, the Larkin family loaded up their wagon and headed west in search of a new life. But how did they do it? What did they eat? How did they survive sickness, and attacks from cattle thieves? Drawing on diaries and letters, and illustrated with photographs of actual objects from the past, Daily Life in a Covered Wagon explores what life was really like on the wagon trail.

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