The Oregon Trail

Books, CDs, Videos:

K-6th:

  • Daily Life in a Covered Wagon  
    by Paul Erickson

  • The Oregon Trail
    by
    Leonard Everett Fisher

  • Oregon Trail Cooking
    by Mary Gunderson

  • A Covered Wagon Girl:
    The Diary of Sallie Hester

  • When Pioneers Pushed West to Oregon
    by Elizabeth Montgomery Rider  

  • How Would You Survive in the American West? 
    by Jacqueline Morley

  • Rachel’s Journey: the Story of a Pioneer Girl
    by Marissa Moss

  • Bound for Oregon
    by Jean Van Leeuwen

  • The Oregon Trail Computer Game
    by The Learning Company.

7th grade and up:

  • Maps of the Oregon Trail
    by Gregory M. Franzwa

  • A Pioneer’s Search for an Ideal Home
    by Pheobe Godall Judson

  • The Ox-Team or the Old Oregon Trail
    by Ezra Meeker

  • Pioneer Women
    by
    Linda Peavey and Ursula Smith

  • Surviving the Oregon Trail, 1852
    by Weldon Willis Rau

  • The Oregon Trail [videorecording]   
    by Goodtimes Home Video, 1994, 1 hour 

  • The Founding of Tumwater
    (The History of Tumwater vol. 1)

    by Don Trosper

  • Wagon Wheel Kitchens
    by Jacqueline Williams

  • The Oregon Trail Computer Game
    by  The Learning Company.