9 Best nonfiction books like Days on the Road: Crossing the Plains in 1865 by Sarah Raymond Herndon

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Days on the Road: Crossing the Plains in 1865

By: Sarah Raymond Herndon

3.84

Format: 176 pages, Kindle Edition

“Why are we here? Why have we left home, friends, relatives, associates, and loved ones, who have m…

If you liked the nonfiction plot in Days on the Road: Crossing the Plains in 1865 by Sarah Raymond Herndon , here is a list of 9 books like this:

1. The Diary of a Forty-Niner

By: Chauncey L. Canfield

4.00

Format: 96 pages, Kindle Edition

1849, California. The Gold Rush had begun. 300,000 gold-seekers left their homes, grabbed what they… read more

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2. Across The Plains In 1844

By: None , None

3.85

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

Catherine Sager's story is among the most gripping firsthand accounts of life in the American west … read more

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3. The Journal of Snow Woman

By: CR Wilson

4.06

Format: 136 pages, Kindle Edition

In the mid-1800's a wagon train is on the Oregon Trail. One of the wagons belongs to the Applegates… read more

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4. Found

By: Erin Kinsley

4.11

Format: 384 pages, Kindle Edition

When 11 year old Evan vanishes without trace, his parents are plunged into their worst nightmare. … read more

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5. Nine Years Among the Indians, 1870-1879: The Story of the Captivity and Life of a Texan Among the Indians

By: Herman Lehmann

4.17

Format: 115 pages, Kindle Edition

"Lehmann's memoir is quite fantastic-sounding at times, but is regarded as one of the best of that … read more

Similar categories in Herman Lehmann's Nine Years Among the Indians, 1870-1879: The Story of the Captivity and Life of a Texan Among the Indians book and Sarah Raymond Herndon's Days on the Road: Crossing the Plains in 1865

  • american history
  • biography
  • memoir
  • history
  • historical
  • nonfiction
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6. Fifty Years On The Trail: The True Story of John Y. Nelson, Frontiersman, Scout, and Guide

By: John Nelson

4.34

Format: 210 pages, Kindle Edition

Frontiersman, military scout, interpreter, guide, police chief, and saloon owner; John Young Nelson… read more

Similar categories in John Nelson's Fifty Years On The Trail: The True Story of John Y. Nelson, Frontiersman, Scout, and Guide book and Sarah Raymond Herndon's Days on the Road: Crossing the Plains in 1865

  • history
  • nonfiction
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7. My Sixty Years on the Plains: Trapping, Trading, and Indian Fighting

By: William Thomas Hamilton

4.17

Format: 98 pages, Kindle Edition

Of course I knew how to scalp, and soon accomplished the feat, much to his satisfaction, for he sai… read more

Similar categories in William Thomas Hamilton's My Sixty Years on the Plains: Trapping, Trading, and Indian Fighting book and Sarah Raymond Herndon's Days on the Road: Crossing the Plains in 1865

  • american history
  • biography
  • memoir
  • history
  • travel
  • nonfiction
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8. Narrative of My Captivity Among the Sioux Indians

By: Fanny Kelly

3.87

Format: 170 pages, Kindle Edition

“I was a member of a small company of emigrants, who were attacked by an overwhelming force of host… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
"Experience is a great teacher, and we were then in her school, and learned that while hope offers the faintest token of refuge, we pause upon the fearful brink of eternity, and look back for rescue."

-Fanny Kelly, Narrative of My Captivity Among the Sioux Indians

"Mother! what a world of affection is comprised in that single word; how little do we in the giddy round of youthful pleasure and folly heed her wise counsels. How lightly do we look upon that zealous…"

-Fanny Kelly, Narrative of My Captivity Among the Sioux Indians

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9. By Ox Team to California: Crossing the Plains in 1860

By: Lavinia Honeyman Porter

4.21

Format: 107 pages, Kindle Edition

“We then determined to use the small remnant of our fortune to provide a suitable outfit for a leng… read more

Similar categories in Lavinia Honeyman Porter's By Ox Team to California: Crossing the Plains in 1860 book and Sarah Raymond Herndon's Days on the Road: Crossing the Plains in 1865

  • american history
  • biography
  • memoir
  • history
  • 19th century
  • historical
  • travel
  • nonfiction
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10. Left by the Indians

By: Ethan E. Harris

3.75

Format: 30 pages, Kindle Edition

This is a first-hand account one of the worst wagon train massacres in the Old West. After 45 days … read more

Similar categories in Ethan E. Harris's Left by the Indians book and Sarah Raymond Herndon's Days on the Road: Crossing the Plains in 1865

  • history
  • nonfiction
"They were mounted on horses and were to go ahead and clear the way for us to follow with our wagons. But instead of doing so, the discharged soldiers put spurs to the horses, which belonged to Mr. Va…"

-Ethan E. Harris, Left by the Indians

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11. Days on the Road: Crossing the Plains in 1865

By: Sarah Raymond Herndon

3.84

Format: 176 pages, Kindle Edition

“Why are we here? Why have we left home, friends, relatives, associates, and loved ones, who have m… read more

Similar categories in Sarah Raymond Herndon's Days on the Road: Crossing the Plains in 1865 book and Sarah Raymond Herndon's Days on the Road: Crossing the Plains in 1865

  • american history
  • biography
  • memoir
  • history
  • 19th century
  • historical
  • travel
  • research
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
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12. Lone Tree Claim (On the Dakota Frontier, #2)

By: CK Van Dam

4.32

Format: 301 pages, Kindle Edition

Like many Americans, Civil War widow Katie Rose Kelly was determined to make a new life for herself… read more

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13. Where Courage Began: Velma's Story

By: G.L. Gooding

4.18

Format: 325 pages, Kindle Edition

A blizzard rages outside a ramshackle Iowa farmhouse in February of 1921. Five-year-old Velma and h… read more

Similar categories in G.L. Gooding's Where Courage Began: Velma's Story book and Sarah Raymond Herndon's Days on the Road: Crossing the Plains in 1865

  • historical
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14. The Heartbroken Sheriff Rescues the Captured Bride (Eagle Creek Brides #2)

By: Karla Gracey

4.53

Format: 137 pages, Kindle Edition

Clara Wilton is bored. Trapped in the life of a Boston Socialite, she longs for adventure, purpose … read more

Similar categories in Karla Gracey's The Heartbroken Sheriff Rescues the Captured Bride (Eagle Creek Brides #2) book and Sarah Raymond Herndon's Days on the Road: Crossing the Plains in 1865

  • historical
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15. The Girls Are Gone: The True Story of Two Sisters Who Vanished, the Father Who Kept Searching, and the Adults Who Conspired to Keep the Truth Hidden

By: Michael Brodkorb

3.70

Format: 504 pages, Kindle Edition

On the evening of April 19, 2013, Samantha and Gianna Rucki disappeared. Two of five children born … read more

Similar categories in Michael Brodkorb's The Girls Are Gone: The True Story of Two Sisters Who Vanished, the Father Who Kept Searching, and the Adults Who Conspired to Keep the Truth Hidden book and Sarah Raymond Herndon's Days on the Road: Crossing the Plains in 1865

  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
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16. The Girl Behind the Gates

By: Brenda Davies

4.52

Format: 346 pages, Kindle Edition

1939. Seventeen-year-old Nora Jennings has spent her life secure in the certainty of a bright, happ… read more

Similar categories in Brenda Davies's The Girl Behind the Gates book and Sarah Raymond Herndon's Days on the Road: Crossing the Plains in 1865

  • historical
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17. Bitter Honey

By: Sharon Mierke

4.53

Format: 270 pages, Kindle Edition

In the early 1800s (1830s – 1860s) it has been estimated that as many as 300,000 men and women may … read more

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18. Across the Plains (Illustrated): A first hand account of pioneer life in the American West

By: Catherine Sager

4.01

Format: 53 pages, Kindle Edition

Pioneer life seen through the eyes of a young girl.Catherine Sager captured her family's trip acros… read more

Similar categories in Catherine Sager's Across the Plains (Illustrated): A first hand account of pioneer life in the American West book and Sarah Raymond Herndon's Days on the Road: Crossing the Plains in 1865

  • history
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19. Across the Plains in 1884

By: Catherine Sager

3.65

Format: 82 pages, Kindle Edition

In April 1844 the Sager family took part in the great westward migration and started their journey … read more

Similar categories in Catherine Sager's Across the Plains in 1884 book and Sarah Raymond Herndon's Days on the Road: Crossing the Plains in 1865

  • history
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20. First Girl in the West

By: Eliza Spalding Warren

3.92

Format: 32 pages, Kindle Edition

Eliza Spalding Warren was the very first pioneer girl to grow up in the mountain west. Her story is… read more

Similar categories in Eliza Spalding Warren's First Girl in the West book and Sarah Raymond Herndon's Days on the Road: Crossing the Plains in 1865

  • history
  • nonfiction
  • american history
Cover of Seven Years with the Indians (Expanded, Annotated) by Owen P. Dabney

21. Seven Years with the Indians (Expanded, Annotated)

By: Owen P. Dabney

3.83

Format: 92 pages, Kindle Edition

When the Ainsleys joined the westward expansion of the U.S. in 1862, they could never have imagined… read more

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10 must-read history books like Days on the Road: Crossing the Plains in 1865 by Sarah Raymond Herndon

Transform Your Habits

Nine Years Among the Indians, 1870-1879: The Story of the Captivity and Life of a Texan Among the Indians

Herman Lehmann

4.17

Transform Your Habits

Fifty Years On The Trail: The True Story of John Y. Nelson, Frontiersman, Scout, and Guide

John Nelson

4.34

Transform Your Habits

My Sixty Years on the Plains: Trapping, Trading, and Indian Fighting

William Thomas Hamilton

4.17

Transform Your Habits

Narrative of My Captivity Among the Sioux Indians

Fanny Kelly

3.87

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21 must-read history books like My Sixty Years on the Plains: Trapping, Trading, and Indian Fighting by William Thomas Hamilton

Transform Your Habits

Six Years With the Texas Rangers: 1875-1881

James B. Gillett

4.14

Transform Your Habits

The Life and Adventures of James P. Beckwourth: Mountaineer, Scout, and Pioneer, and Chief of the Crow Nation of Indians

James P. Beckwourth

4.16

Rising Wolf, the White Blackfoot: Hugh Monroe's Story of His First Year on the Plains (1919)

James Willard Schultz

4.23

Transform Your Habits

American Buffalo: In Search of a Lost Icon

Steven Rinella

3.50

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