By Frank Young

Based on their vast examine into own debts of the Oregon path, comedian authors David Lasky and Frank younger have created a image narrative of 1 family's epic trip. the most personality is an 11-year-old lady whose family members units path for the West to hunt new possibilities and to flee the japanese urban the place that they had been dwelling. Oregon path finds all the making plans, gear, and logistics that went into touring throughout an untamed continent within the 1800s. as well as its visualization of the family's trip, the publication contains a sequence of two-page spreads detailing a visible stock of every thing the kin took with them, together with the elements of a lined wagon and a for my part annotated map of the path. Readers get a ground-level believe for what it used to be wish to join this storied migration west-not a dry recitation of dates and proof, yet an instantly memorable dwelling heritage.

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Of 1872 book) THE OREGON TRAIL: AN AMERICAN SAGA David Dary (New York City: Knopf, 2004) THE OREGON TRAIL DIARY OF REV. EDWARD EVANS PARRISH IN 1844 Edited by Bert Webber (Central Point, OR: Webb Research Group, 1988) THE OREGON TRAIL IN AMERICAN HISTORY Rebecca Stefoff (Berkeley Heights, NJ: Easlow Publishers, 1997) OUTLINE HISTORY OF AN EXPEDITION TO CALIFORNIA “XOX” (Lafayette, CA: Great West Books; 1999 reprint of 1849 satirical booklet) THE PAWNEE Stuart A. Kallen (Farmington Hills, MI: Lucent Books, 2000) WAGON TRAIN: A FAMILY GOES WEST IN 1865 Courtni C.

Kallen (Farmington Hills, MI: Lucent Books, 2000) WAGON TRAIN: A FAMILY GOES WEST IN 1865 Courtni C. Wright; illustrated by Gershom Griffith (New York City: Holiday House, 1995) David Lasky has been a published cartoonist since 1989. Among his best known work is the awardnominated Urban Hipster and No Ordinary Flu, in collaboration with King County Public Health. He is currently working on the graphic novel, Don’t Forget This Song, the story of country music’s Carter Family. Frank Young is a writer and cartoonist living in Seattle, Washington.

Wright; illustrated by Gershom Griffith (New York City: Holiday House, 1995) David Lasky has been a published cartoonist since 1989. Among his best known work is the awardnominated Urban Hipster and No Ordinary Flu, in collaboration with King County Public Health. He is currently working on the graphic novel, Don’t Forget This Song, the story of country music’s Carter Family. Frank Young is a writer and cartoonist living in Seattle, Washington. This is his first graphic novel in a thirty-plus–year publishing career.

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