How long does it take to read Dear America?
Across the Wide and Lonesome Prairie: The Oregon Trail Diary of Hattie Campbell, 1847
Dear America by Kristiana Gregory takes about 3 hours to read at 250 words a minute.
About 3 hours
A weekend read
164 pages, about 45,100 words.
6 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 5 hours 1 minute |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 3 hours |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 1 hour 53 minutes |
The page count is the median across 1 edition, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Now that we're in the North Platte River Valley the air feels dry and thin. My lips are so chapped they bleed when I talk. The only thing to do is dip our fingers in to the bucket of axle grease and rub our lips every hour or so. It smells bad, it tastes bad, and the blowing dust sticks. It feels like we must be halfway to Oregon, but Tall Joe says, no, we've only gone five hundred miles. He also says the worst part of the trail is to come. Does he mean more rivers to cross...? I'm afraid to ask what he's talking about.
Subjects: Fiction, Frontier and pioneer life, Diaries, West (U.S.), Oregon Trail, .
