Lucy and her Manifest Destiny — Mary Fitzgerald

Thirteen-year-old Lucy Applegate and her family left Missouri in the spring of 1843 and headed for the Oregon country, blazing the way for the pioneers who would soon begin to follow the seventeen-hundred mile route westward. The trip was filled with hope, hardships, and heartaches as Lucy, the oldest of the Applegate children, struggled to balance caring for the younger children along with her pursuit of her manifest destiny,