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Lead Me Home: Hardship and hope on the Oregon Trail (Oregon Chronicles) Paperback – September 29, 2015

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In 1847, Caleb "Mac" McDougall, a young Bostonian, seeks adventure on the Oregon Trail. As he passes through Missouri, he rescues Jenny Calhoun, a lonely girl in trouble.

To join a wagon train bound for Oregon, Mac and Jenny pose as a married couple. On the arduous six-month trek, they confront raging rivers, rugged mountains, and untrustworthy companions. Together, Mac and Jenny face the best and worst in themselves and in each other, while discovering the beauty and danger of the western frontier.

Fans of Lonesome Dove and True Grit will enjoy Lead Me Home—a gripping saga of courage, sacrifice, and enduring friendship.

Winner, Missouri Author Project Adult Fiction contest, sponsored by Bibliolabs and Library Journal.

Theresa Hupp has published award-winning essays, short stories, and poetry, as well as a bestselling financial thriller under a pseudonym. Lead Me Home is her first historical novel.

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Theresa Hupp's interest in the Oregon Trail began in childhood. She grew up in Eastern Washington near the Whitman Mission, and Narcissa Whitman was her heroine. Theresa also lived in the Willamette Valley as a child, and now lives in Kansas City, Missouri. Thus, she knows both the beginning and the end of the trail well.

Theresa is the award-winning author of novels, short stories, essays, and poetry, and has worked as an attorney, mediator, and human resources executive.

She has published a novel-a bestselling financial thriller-under a pseudonym, as well as an anthology under her own name, Family Recipe: Sweet and saucy stories, essays, and poems about family life. In addition, Theresa has published short works in Chicken Soup for the Soul, Mozark Press, and Kansas City Voices. She is a member of the Kansas City Writers Group, Missouri Writers Guild, Oklahoma Writers Federation, Inc., and Write Brain Trust.

Theresa's website and blog can be found at TheresaHuppAuthor.com, https: //theresahuppauthor.com, where she often posts about the Oregon Trail. She invites readers to follow her there, on her Facebook Author page, http: //facebook.com/TheresaHuppAuthor, and on Amazon at http: //www.amazon.com/Theresa-Hupp/e/B009H8QIT8.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Rickover Publishing (September 29, 2015)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 434 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0985324422
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0985324421
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.27 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6 x 0.98 x 9 inches

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Theresa Hupp has lived on both ends of the Oregon Trail, which has inspired her writing. She grew up in Eastern Washington State and in the Willamette Valley in Oregon. Her ancestors include early emigrants to Oregon and immigrants to Sacramento, California (though her California forebearers arrived after the Gold Rush). She now lives in Kansas City, Missouri, near the beginning of the Oregon Trail.

Narcissa Whitman was one of Theresa’s childhood heroines. As she was growing up, Theresa was in awe of the strength of the emigrants to Oregon and their fortitude in leaving behind everything and everyone they'd known in their former homes. She began thinking about writing about this era as a teenager, but it took her until her fifties to make it happen.

Theresa is the award-winning author of novels, short stories, essays, and poetry, and has worked as an attorney, mediator, and human resources executive. She has now published six historical novels about the development of the American West—LEAD ME HOME, NOW I'M FOUND, FOREVER MINE, MY HOPE SECURED, SAFE THUS FAR, and WHEN HEART SHALL FAIL.

LEAD ME HOME was the Missouri winner in the Indie Author Project's adult fiction contest. Both LEAD ME HOME and NOW I'M FOUND won awards from the Oklahoma Writers Federation, Inc., and LEAD ME HOME was runner-up for the 2016 “Show-Me” Best Book Award sponsored by the Missouri Writers Guild. In addition, NOW I'M FOUND, FOREVER MINE, and MY HOPE SECURED were nominees for the Thorpe Menn Literary Excellence Award. SAFE THUS FAR was a finalist for the Thorpe Menn Award.

Theresa has also published two corporate thrillers under a pseudonym, as well as an anthology under her own name, FAMILY RECIPE. In addition, Theresa has short works in various anthologies published by Chicken Soup for the Soul, Mozark Press, and Kansas City Voices.

Theresa's website is TheresaHuppAuthor.com, and she blogs on that site. She often posts about the Oregon Trail and the California Gold Rush, as well as about her writing, her family, and her life. She invites readers to subscribe to her blog. Readers can also follow her on her Facebook Author page, https://www.facebook.com/TheresaHuppAuthor, and on this Amazon Author Central page.

Theresa served on the boards of Whispering Prairie Press and The Writers Place, and is a member of the Historical Novel Society, the Kansas City Writers Group, the Missouri Writers Guild, Oklahoma Writers Federation, Inc., and Write Brain Trust. She also has served on a variety of non-profit and civic boards and committees not related to writing.

She has a B.A. from Middlebury College and a J.D. from Stanford Law School, and she has worked as an attorney, human resources executive, and mediator.

Inquiries about Theresa's writing and her availability to speak with book clubs, historical societies, writing groups, and others can be made through her website, TheresaHuppAuthor.com

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Customers find the book engaging, with a wonderful detailed story that keeps them wanting to read more. The book is well-researched and instructive, with one customer noting its very descriptive look into the Oregon Trail. They appreciate the character development, with one review specifically mentioning the realistic portrayal of characters.

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"...true stories of crossing the Oregon trail, this book delivered a very sweet story about a young man and a young woman whose paths crossed one night...." Read more

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David Fitz-Gerald
Lead Me Home will make you feel like you are there too
Reviewed in the United States on November 11, 2021
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Lead Me Home promises hardship and hope on the Oregon Trail, and it sure delivers. This book is spectacularly detailed and very well written. It’s a long book, which means great value. I feel like I saw every turn of the trail, feared every river crossing, felt every bump along the way, and tasted the dust.

It’s 1847. Mac is a 24-year-old man from Boston who trained to be a lawyer. He leaves behind a past that he’d just as soon forget. He’s looking for adventure. He says, “I like new places. Nothing newer than a country that’s never been settled.”

Jenny is a 14-year-old girl who joins Mac because there isn’t a better option. Mac rescues her after a sheriff, his deputy, and her stepfather rape her. The wagon train provides her with an opportunity to disappear and not be followed. Mac can’t join the train as a single man, so he asks Jenny to pose as his wife. Jenny’s very young age and the age difference between Jenny and Mac are very disturbing, pretend wife or not.

I love the little symbol or logo that serves as the section break between the chapters. This little illustration of a prairie schooner led by oxen is a constant reminder of the setting for the book.

The book has a strong open, 5-star middle, and a fair ending. It would have been nice after 435 pages to have some degree of closure with the characters, even if it overlaps with the next installment in the series.

I highly recommend Lead Me Home. I enjoyed reading it so much that I plan to read it again and there aren’t many books that I read twice.

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Oregon Trail
Reviewed in the United States on September 18, 2019
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Lead Me Home by Theresa Hupp. I loved the characters and the storyline. I loved each chapter of this book. Page after page I ate it up! The ending leaves you hanging though and that's the only sour thing about this book.

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Easy read and informative too
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I love historical fiction. Based on the true stories of crossing the Oregon trail, this book delivered a very sweet story about a young man and a young woman whose paths crossed one night. She was being abused, he was looking for an adventure. Being a gentleman, he took her away from the abusive people and then she saved him when he got cholera on the trail. This book is very descriptive about the trail. The sights, the struggles, the river crossings and the death that was common on this journey. I love history. I love the Oregon trail stories and this one was one of the best I have ever read. It even has a map of the trail that includes the mountains, rivers, and rock outcroppings that are well named on the trail. A good read. An easy read. A gentle tale of two young people who are both looking for something along the way.

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Mary Holliday
Interesting book about the trip to Oregon
Reviewed in the United States on March 4, 2018
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I thoroughly enjoyed this book. I felt I was making the trip with Jenny and Mac and the other people on the wagon train. Of course there were certain families that were more focused on than others. Mr. Abercrombie was the one man who antagonized everyone and he stayed true to character throughout the whole book. Jenny and Mac were the main characters and you were pulling for them the whole time. No one family or person had more trouble than any other. The Oregon Trail did not pick favorites - it seemed all had problems with weather, animals being exhausted, sickness and even some dealing with death. I have been reading quite a few different books and authors in the last year about the Oregon Trail. I like that the stories are similar and the landmarks are the same. As I read this book I could see and feel the long trip. Nothing was easy from hunting food and making do with what meat or vegetation they could find along the way. I felt I knew these people and their hardships. These were hard working people trying to make a better life for themselves.

The book ended abruptly and left you hanging with no solution to one or two main problems. Thank goodness, there is a sequel to this book and also one other book in the series that gives the story of Jenny's best friend . I have already purchased these books and will start the second one today. I must see how this all works out! I recommend this book to anyone who likes this type of historical fiction and about the settlers going to the western territory. I don't think you will be disappointed!

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Well written fictional stories.
Reviewed in the United States on June 6, 2017
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Good book but i jumped ahead to the last two chapters because there are just so many fictional and similar books written. I don't plan to read anymore since they all seem to have the same scenario of the difficulties the pioneers endured.

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Joyce Brown
Adventure and Hardship
Reviewed in the United States on May 6, 2016
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Have you ever wanted to go back in time and ride in a Conestoga wagon on the Oregon Trail? Here's your chance. Ms. Hupp has created a setting and characters so realistic that the reader might believe the diary entries she includes in each chapter came from a real traveler. Her research did, in fact, include reading diaries, maps, and first-hand accounts of such journeys.
Not only did I vicariously sweat during the trip across the western deserts, grow nervous about river crossings, feel the dust in my face behind the animals, and mourn the loss of wagon train members, but also I empathized with the emotional ups and downs of the main characters. From the saga's unsettling beginning when Mac meets Jenny under emotional and tragic circumstances, the tone is set for their ups and downs during the long trek across country. Then, as we get to know them, we learn the inner strengths and sometimes immature decisions that guide the young people through trying situations.
I rooted for the characters when conflicts arose, and I kept turning pages to find out what would happen. Would the bully/discontent cause a fight with the Native Americans and get everyone killed? Would the baby or the mother die during childbirth? Would Mac and Jenny find what they wanted? Now, I'm anxious for the sequel since I've come to care about all of them.

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Very enjoyable
Reviewed in the United States on December 30, 2020
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This is a very enjoyable and seemingly realistic story of emigrants on the Oregon Trail. There were a bad guys, of course, but not cartoonishly bad guys. I hope the sequel is as well written because I’m ordering it now.

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A good read
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on March 9, 2022
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A good read. Historically fairly accurate. A little lacking in suspense

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Five Stars
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