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A Book for Black-Eyed Susan
by Judy Young
Illustrator: Doris Ettlinger
Ages: 6+
Published: 2011
Publisher: Sleeping Bear
ISBN: 978-1-58536-463-3
Keywords: Oregon trail, Source history, US Western migration
Cora's mother dies in childbirth along the trail west to Oregon. Cora's aunt must care for the child that Cora names for her mother's favorite flower, and for whom she makes a cloth scrap remembrance book.