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Along the Santa Fe Trail: Marion Russell's Own Story

Author(s): Ginger Wadsworth (Author), Marion Sloan Russell (Author), James Watling (Illustrator)

Publisher: Albert Whitman & Co
Publication Date: January 1, 1993
Language: English
Print length: 1 pages
ISBN-10: 0807502952
ISBN-13: 9780807502952

Book Description

An adaptation of the author’s biography, Land of Enchantment, describes her eventful 1852 journey with her mother and brother from Kansas to California over the Santa Fe trail in a large wagon train.

Editorial Reviews

From School Library Journal

Grade 2-3-Wadsworth has adapted Russell’s memoirs of traveling as part of a wagon train in 1851 on the Santa Fe Trail from Kansas, with her widowed mother and her brother, headed for California. The narrative shows the child’s daily routine as she comments on the sights and stops along the way, the weather, the lack of water, the animals they encountered, and the hostile and friendly Indians. The flowing text is complemented by Watling’s evocative paintings of placid buffalo, the wagon train in a storm, and the bustle of Santa Fe. Unexpectedly, the trip doesn’t end in California, but in Albuquerque, after Marion’s mother’s money and jewels are stolen and she is unable to pay for the rest of the journey. A route map is provided, as is an afterword explaining what happened to Marion and her family and friends. A solid choice as a personalized view of westward expansion or a browser for history buffs, told from a woman’s point of view.
Sally Bates Goodroe, Houston Public Library
Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc.

From Booklist

Gr. 3-5. In a faithful adaptation of Land of Enchantment: Memoirs of Marion Russell Along the Santa Fe Trail, seven-year-old Marion describes her experiences with her widowed mother and older brother as part of a wagon train. Recorded by her daughter-in-law when Marion was 80 years old, the first-person narrative has the perspective of an adult (“Between the two night circles . . . was a no-man’s land which the children used as a playground”). As acknowledged in the foreword, Marion’s attitudes toward Indians as either savages or exotics reflect the time and place in which she lived. The illustrations in colored ink and colored pencil capture the setting through the haze of memory. Conveying a sense of the danger, boredom, and natural beauty that accompanied these trailblazers, this book deserves a place in large regional or pioneer collections. No bibliographic information is provided for the source. Julie Corsaro

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Along the Santa Fe Trail: Marion Russell's Own Story

Along the Santa Fe Trail: Marion Russell's Own Story

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