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All the Stars in the Sky: The Santa Fe Trail Diary of Florrie Mack Ryder
Children's fiction
All the Stars in the Sky: The Santa Fe Trail Diary of Florrie Mack Ryder
192 pages · First published 2003
Florrie Mack Ryder travels with her family along the Santa Fe Trail in 1848, crossing the plains toward New Mexico during a period of rapid American expansion. Her diary records wagons, weather, animals, unfamiliar landscapes, and encounters that complicate a simple adventure story about going west. Family responsibilities and the dangers of the trail force Florrie to mature as the journey lengthens. Megan McDonald’s Dear America novel uses a fictional girl’s journal to introduce the Santa Fe Trail and the cultural borderlands travelers encountered beyond the more familiar Oregon-bound routes.
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