Dorothy’s journeys to Oz

by @timescrolly1900 – 191020 items

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Oz and its four countries, detail of John R. Neill’s 1914 map (east and west are reversed). Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
Oz and its four countries, detail of John R. Neill’s 1914 map (east and west are reversed). Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

Dorothy’s five visits, on the map

Dorothy reaches Oz by cyclone in 1900, by shipwreck in 1907, by earthquake in 1908 and on foot in 1909, and in 1910 she moves there. Each visit is a period at the year of its book, and each step of it is placed on Neill’s 1914 map, so the map view traces her route: from the Munchkin Country to the Emerald City and the Winkie Country, over the desert to Ev, and down to the Vegetable Kingdom.

Baum gives no dates, so each visit sits in the year its book appeared, as on the main timeline, and every step is linked to the same event there. This is fiction, drawn from Baum’s books alone.

Items

  1. The cyclone and the silver shoes (1900)

    ≈ 1 year

  2. The cyclone sets the house down in Munchkin Country

    Munchkin Country

  3. Dorothy reaches the Emerald City

    The Emerald City

  4. Dorothy melts the Wicked Witch in the Winkie Country

    Winkie Country

  5. The silver shoes carry Dorothy home from Glinda’s castle

    Quadling Country

  6. ≈ 6 years
  7. Ev and the Nome King’s belt (1907)

    ≈ 1 year

  8. Dorothy washes up on the shore of Ev

    Land of Ev

  9. Dorothy takes the Nome King’s belt

    Dominions of the Nome King

  10. Dorothy crosses back to the Emerald City with Ozma

    The Emerald City

  11. Down the crack in California (1908)

    ≈ 1 year

  12. The party reaches the Vegetable Kingdom

    Vegetable Kingdom

  13. The party climbs Pyramid Mountain

    Pyramid Mountain

  14. The Magic Belt carries the party to the Emerald City

    The Emerald City

  15. On foot with the Shaggy Man (1909)

    ≈ 1 year

  16. A sand-boat crosses the Deadly Desert

    Where the Sand Boat crossed

  17. The Truth Pond in the Winkie Country

    Winkie Country

  18. Dorothy reaches the Emerald City for Ozma’s birthday

    The Emerald City

  19. Staying for good (1910)

    ≈ 1 year

  20. Ozma brings Uncle Henry and Aunt Em to the Emerald City

    The Emerald City

  21. Glinda makes Oz invisible

    Quadling Country