The book contains the fictional journals of a young girls journey on the Oregon Trail and settling in Oregon. In journal 1, she records her adventures and relationships on the Oregon Trail. In journal 2, she continues her story and that of her family and friends as they settle in the Willamette Valley in Oregon.
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R.J. is a girl who journeys with her family on the Oregon Trail. Her journals reveal the adventures and challenges of the migration West and settling in Oregon Territory in the late 1850's.
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Ardie Nelson was born and raised in Nebraska. She enjoys studying American History. Having grown up on what was the vast prairie of the Great Plains she still wonders what the landscape was like before highways, power lines, and barbwire fences. She has taught in private Christian school and worked professionally with children, youth and adults in churches in Minnesota and Texas. Currently she lives in Missouri near where the trails to Oregon, California, and Sante Fe crossed the landscape.