Orphan Trains: An Interactive History Adventureby Elizabeth Raum (1850-1929) explores the harrowing lives of young orphans in the early 1900s, who were sent west on trains in hopes of finding them families. Riding Freedomby Pam Munoz Ryan (1850s) tells the story of Charlotte Parkhurst, a wo...
I dreamed of the things I would do: cross the Mississippi River, or maybe jump off at Memphis and get a job on a boat heading towards New Orleans. I’d take my guitar with me, and make some money singing in clubs. But then, maybe I’d ride those trains all the way to California...
The adventures of the early nineteenth-century mountain man, Jim Bridger, as he guides wagon trains west, scouts for the U.S. Army, and explores the region which became Yellowstone National Park.Willard Luce
Trains from Farringdon will, as originally intended, serve destinations in all directions: south to Brighton, west to Maidenhead, north to Peterborough, and east to Shenfield. … With new trains, refurbished staffed stations and a frequent service, this has been a much welcome addition to the ...
And as I saw him about to open a whisky and remembered what that in particular did to him, as the need to drain it would speed up, I cried out that I was on the wagon, and he checked himself and his wife brought coffee (and his gestures, I noted, as with other Finns, while ...
pushing her wagon as they pushed theirs before them, moved into the thick of it with the matrons, the teen-age girls, the displaced grandmothers, some of them newly come from the States, who clung to the handles of their vehicles as if to the last remaining vestiges of a civilization th...