Johnny Appleseed was an important historical figure, well known for planting apple orchards across the new frontier. But he was also a master storyteller! In his own folksy voice, Johnny Appleseed tells his story to a couple of entranced children in this fictionalized Step 2 title. Readers learn how he started planting apple trees—and about some of the myths and true stories of his life.

A Missouri guide is forced to choose between going to jail or leading a wagon train across perilous plains to the West. As the caravan winds westward, it faces bitter weather, rugged terrain, betrayal and hostile Indians.

In her diary, thirteen-year-old Hattie chronicles her family's arduous 1847 journey from Missouri to Oregon on the Oregon Trail.

Hoping a change in environment will ease John Lindsay's sickness, his family heads west to discover that their new homestead is an abandoned military post, and they've ridden into the middle of a gang of thieves and rustlers who have total control of the desolate land.

Laura and her family move to Minnesota where they live in a dugout until a new house is built and face misfortunes caused by flood, blizzard, and grasshoppers.

Sometimes she wished she was an only child . . . "She's lovely! Look at those curls. Those blue eyes. She's just beautiful!" Berta was used to hearing comments like that. But they were not about her. . . . Whenever ladies came to the house or met her mother on the street, they exclaimed over Berta's little sister, Glenna. Somewhere along the way, Berta decided that whatever Glenna was, she would not be. Whatever Glenna did, she would not do. Whatever...

Segunda entrega de la saga de la familia Cole, en la que el legado familiar adquiere una importancia de proporciones épicas en la vida de dos médicos en la América del siglo XVIII. Escocés y vástago de una familia que ha practicado la medicina a lo largo de generaciones, el doctor Robert Judson Cole debe dejar su devastada tierra por razones políticas y emigar a las nuevas tierras de América, tras llegar a Boston y trabajar con el eminente...

An alphabetical listing of words related to life on the American frontier, from ague and bank barn to wheelwright and zoetrope.