It Happened on the Oregon Trail includes twenty-nine unusual, remarkable,
and little-known events that happened along the trail from Independence,
Missouri to Oregon's Willamette Valley. Read about Rufus K. Porter, who developed
a plan to fly people to Oregon in hot air balloons; Emily Fisher, a former slave,
who ran a hotel that catered to westward travelers; about Lafayette Tate, who
experienced "trail justice" for committing murder; about Catherine Hickman and
David Parks, who met on the trail and were married in a trailside wedding; and Solomon Butcher, a frontier photographer, who captured life on the Great Plains.
This book reveals the hidden stories that few people know, and that are not
covered in general interest books about the trail.
ISBN 0-7627-2579-6
Paperback: 192 pages
$9.95
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Interesting Facts
Begun in earnest in the 1830s and named for the emerging system of steam railroads in the United States, the Underground Railroad moved hundreds of slaves northward each year through a network of safe houses organized by the efforts of blacks and whites who abhorred slavery. It Happened on the Underground Railroad recounts the stunning tales of rescue and reveals the stories of the people who aided slaves on their flight to freedom.
ISBN- 0-7627-4001-9
Paperback: 144 pages
$9.95
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Quotes from Slaves
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Quotes from Slaves
The brave pioneers who made a life on the frontier were not only male—and they were not only white. The story of African-American Women of the Old West is one that has largely gone untold--until now. The story of ten African-American women is reconstructed from historic documents found in century-old archives.
The ten remarkable women in African American Women of the Old West were all born before 1900, some were slaves, some were free, and some lived both ways during their lifetime. Among them were laundresses, freedom advocates, journalists, educators, midwives, business proprietors, religious converts, philanthropists, mail and freight haulers, and civil and social activists.