Size: 10x0x8;

Size: 10x0x8;

pp. 32. Ex-Lib/uncirculated. Text/NEW & Bright. 2000 Edition. Softcover/Fine.

pp. 32. Ex-Lib/uncirculated. Text/NEW & Bright. 2000 Edition. Softcover/Fine. Admired 1850's travelogue along the Oregon Trail, told & illustrated by Englishman Roy Gerrard (1935-1997). Adventures of a young girl & her parents, joined by neigbhors, in search of hospitable, green lands. Narrated in verse by our heroine who tells us: "Way back in eighteen-fifty, when Americans were thrifty/ The times were hard, so most folks had to toil/ My mama, my pa and me labored hard to guarantee/That we'd earn a living from the barren soil." These hardy pioneers and their trusty leader, Buckskin Dan, fight off outlaws near Fort Laramie, rescue a lost Indian boy, and raft down the rocky Columbia River, to reach Oregon's Willamette Valley---which, even in the 1820's, was known as a "promised land of flowing milk and honey". Rich read for young and old.