The Valiant Seven (Paperback)
Netta Sheldon Phelps
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Add to basketSold by AussieBookSeller, Truganina, VIC, Australia
AbeBooks Seller since June 22, 2007
Condition: New
Quantity: 1 available
Add to basketPaperback. When Henry and Naomi Sager decided to take their family to the far away Oregon Country, they couldn't have dreamed that their seven children would arrive at their destination as orphans -- with more tragedy looming on the horizon.The Valiant Seven paints a vivid picture of the hardships faced by the men, women and children who blazed the trails west. It also is a story of indestructible human spirit. Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability.
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The adventures of the Sager children live vividly in this book because every page, every detail, has been taken from the actual diaries and reminiscences of the three girls who escaped the disaster that overtook the ill-starred Waiilatpu Mission.
In the whole reach of American history there is probably no other family of boys and girls whose story can rival in uniqueness and adventure that of the Sager children.
Two boys, John and Frank, and five girls, Catherine, Elizabeth, Tilda, Hannah, and Henrietta, were the seven children of Henry and Naomi Sager. Only eight years after the first white woman crossed the trackless continent, this brave family left civilization behind them, piled their little store of household goods into a prairie schooner, and set out over the Indian-held wilderness that stretched between the Missouri River and far-off Oregon.
Before the journey was well under way, the father was stricken by the malarial fever which the smiling Great Plains often treacherously harbored, and he was left by the sorrowing family in a roadside grave.
Beyond the Rockies the mother, too, succumbed to the hardships of the trail, and there among the bleak, sandy wastes the Sager children became orphans.
John, who was only 14, took charge of the ox team, and Catherine, who was 9, became the mother to the little group as they continued along the mighty Snake River and over the formidable Blue Mountains to their destination, the Mission of kindly Dr. Whitman, missionary to the Cayuse Indians.
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