During the 1800s, thousands of people traveled west hoping to find a better life on the American frontier. Many of those settlers were young children who traveled with their families. Meet four real children and read the stories they might have told about their lives on the frontier.
Gertrude Appolonia Braat Vandergon (1860–1941)
When I was 10, our family left Holland for a “better life” in Minnesota.
