The book I am looking for is one I checked out from the Louisville free public library in the 1960s.
The story was about a family moving west in a covered wagon. (This is not the Laura Ingalls Wilder story)
The family faced hardships and trials. It was a children’s chapter book with an orange cover that I believe had a covered wagon on the cover.
I know chimney rock was mentioned as a landmark in the book. I have looked many times for this book and would like to read it again. In contrast to the little house books, it was a bit more graphic, mentioning things like animal skeletons and tombstones along the trail.
It was fascinating and dramatic. I know this is vague, but would truly appreciate if you could find it. It has been gone from LFPL for many, many years.
I’d bet on “Children of the Covered Wagon” by Mary Jane Carr, first published 1934 and reprinted many times. Have a look!
My library’s copy of Children of the Covered Wagon was orange. They also made a Disney movie of the book, starring Fess Parker. I wonder if there was a movie adaptation…
I used to read (and dearly love) an orange-covered book called The Lost Wagon by Jim Kjelgaard.
“Bread and butter indian” and “Bread and butter journey”?
Could it be “Seven Alone: The Journey Of The Sager Children By Covered Wagon From Missouri To Oregon In 1848” by Honore Willsie Morrow?
One of the older versions has a cover with a lot of orange on it, the mountains surrounding the trail, and there is a couple tiny covered wagons pictured on the trail. I found it on Goodreads.
children on the oregon trail?
There’s an Armstrong Sperry book called Wagons Westward that also has an orange-ish cover. I never read it, but I can clearly see the cover in my mind!
Children of the Covered Wagon.
https://archive.org/details/childrenofcovere00carr