"Upon uncovering her tyrannical father's malevolent plot to commit her to an asylum, Beth Rutledge fabricates a plan of her own. She will rescue her mother, who had already been sent to the asylum, and escape together on a wagon train heading west. Posing as sisters, Beth and her mother travel with the pioneers in hopes of making it to Idaho before the others start asking too many questions. Wagon-train scout Jake Holt senses that the mysterious...

Two men compete for the love of a woman painter on the Oregon Trail. One is her fiancé, a British spy intent on blocking American expansion into the Northwest, the other is an American adventurer equally intent on extending it.

Hope White is one of the preacher's daughters. She's a loving, giving person who plans to start missionary work in California. Clay Adams was raised by a strict preacher grandfather who constantly criticized him and treated him harshly. Now all he wants is adventure and freedom. But his first venture into 'freedom' landed him in hot water with a bad bunch. He wants to leave behind this particular adventure and tries to flee to California. On the journey,...

As his family sets out from Missouri to Oregon, young Ben wonders whether he will have more trouble with the dangers of the journey or his debilitating asthma.

Based on research into personal accounts of the Oregon Trail, comic authors David Lasky and Frank Young have created a graphic narrative of one family's journey on the Oregon Trail--from St. Louis across the high plains, mountains, and on to Oregon. Along the way they encounter difficulties and triumphs on this most arduous route.

In her diary, thirteen-year-old Hattie chronicles her family's arduous 1847 journey from Missouri to Oregon on the Oregon Trail.