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Lucy and her manifest destiny / written by Mary Fitzgerald ; illustrated by Dorothy Kerns.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Schimmel Collection Schimmel 7830
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- FitzGerald, Mary, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Wagon trains.
- West (U.S.).
- Oregon National Historic Trail.
- Frontier and pioneer life.
- Genre:
- Historical fiction.
- Penn Provenance:
- Schimmel, Caroline F. (donor) (Schimmel 7830)
- Physical Description:
- vii, 221 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Bend, Oregon : Maverick Publications, 2013.
- Summary:
- "Thirteen-year-old Lucy Applegate and her family left Missouri in the spring of 1843 and headed for the Oregon country, blazing the way for the pioneers who would soon begin to follow the seventeen-hundred mile route westward. The trip was filled with hope, hardships, and heartaches as Lucy, the oldest of the Applegate children, struggled to balance caring for the younger children along with her pursuit of manifest destiny."--Back cover.
- Notes:
- The author's step-grandmother was related to Lucy. "This book is the story of the trip as she may have experienced it."--page vii
- Local Notes:
- Schimmel 7830: Presented to the Penn Libraries in 2024 by Caroline F. Schimmel. Author's autograph on half title.
- ISBN:
- 9780981781112
- 098178111X
- OCLC:
- 1321498793
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