Kate Winfield on the Oregon Trail

Download or read book Kate Winfield on the Oregon Trail written by Peter Marshall and published by B&H Publishing Group. This book was released on 2008 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The dramatic story of a teenage girl's moral courage in confronting danger, disease, and death while taking part in the greatest human migration in world history. In 1843, Kate is among those 300,000 Americans who will journey up to thousands of miles to the Oregon Territory in search of a better life. Kate matures emotionally and spiritually and begins to dream of becoming a medical missionary to the Indians. But that dream is challenged when a typhus epidemic threatens to wipe out the entire wagon train.