cover image Going West!: Journey on a Wagon Train to Settle a Frontier Town /

Going West!: Journey on a Wagon Train to Settle a Frontier Town /

Carol Johmann. Williamson Publishing Company, $12.95 (96pp) ISBN 978-1-885593-38-2

Kids can take a vicarious dose of Horace Greeley's famous advice in the activity book Going West!: Journey on a Wagon Train to Settle a Frontier Town by Carol A. Johmann and Elizabeth J. Reith. Spurts of friendly, informative narrative relating different aspects of travel along the Oregon Trail link such projects as building a model prairie schooner out of a cardboard box, balsa wood and an old pillowcase; and constructing a miniature Fort Laramie out of Popsicle sticks.