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2) The cowboys
Author
Series
Publisher
Time-Life Books
Pub. Date
[1973]
Language
English
Description
An account of the lives and work of cowboys in the old West, lavishly illustrated with contemporary paintings and photographs.
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"How did Davy Crockett save President Jackson's life--only to end up dying at the Alamo? Was the Lone Ranger based on a real lawman--and was he an African American? What amazing detective work led to the capture of Black Bart, the 'gentleman bandit' and one of the West's most famous stagecoach robbers? Did Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid really die in a hail of bullets in South America? Generations of Americans have grown up on TV shows, movies,...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Covering more than two centuries, The Beaver Men recounts the beginning of the beaver trade along the St. Lawrence to the last great rendezvous of traders and trappers on Ham's Fork, in what is now Wyoming, in 1834. The Beaver Men is the third in Mari Sandoz's trilogy of books narrating the history of the American West in relation to an animal species.
Author
Publisher
Grove Press
Pub. Date
c2002
Language
English
Description
An acclaimed historian’s “compellingly told” year-by-year account of the pioneering efforts to conquer the American West in the mid-nineteenth century (The Guardian).
In all the sagas of human migration, few can top the drama of the journey by Midwestern farmers to Oregon and California from 1840 to 1849—between the era of the fur trappers and the beginning of the gold rush. Even with mountain...
In all the sagas of human migration, few can top the drama of the journey by Midwestern farmers to Oregon and California from 1840 to 1849—between the era of the fur trappers and the beginning of the gold rush. Even with mountain...
Author
Series
Publisher
Chicago Review Press
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
More than 20 activities are included in this engaging guide to life in the west, including learning to churn butter, making dip candles, tracking animals, playing Blind Man's Bluff, and creating a homestead diorama.
13) Galloway
Author
Series
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
1970, 1983.
Language
English
Description
Louis L’Amour tells the story of two brothers who must struggle to survive in a wild and beautiful land to build themselves a ranch and a future.
Trouble was following Flagan Sackett with a vengeance. Captured and tortured by a band of Apaches, he escaped into the rugged San Juan country, where he managed to stay alive until his brother Galloway could find him. But the brothers were about to encounter worse trouble ahead. Their...
Trouble was following Flagan Sackett with a vengeance. Captured and tortured by a band of Apaches, he escaped into the rugged San Juan country, where he managed to stay alive until his brother Galloway could find him. But the brothers were about to encounter worse trouble ahead. Their...
15) Koda
Author
Series
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
2009.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Traveling with his owners from Missouri to Oregon in 1848, Koda, an energetic two-year-old quarter horse, finds the long journey increasingly tedious and tiring until his young owner goes missing on the trail and he must use all his skills to find her.
17) A friend in Rain
Author
Publisher
Puffin
Pub. Date
2002
Language
English
Description
Rain, a horse owned by Lakota Indians, teaches Spirit, a wild horse who has escaped captivity, that some people can be trusted.
Author
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
Description
"The American West is the only book-length historical overview of the post-1900 American West. This account of the modern West skillfully delineates the changes and resulting complexities that characterize the twentieth-century West. The authors consider the ways in which urban, service, and computer-related industries have replaced rural, extractive, and agricultural economies. They also trace the steps by which western politics shifted from New...
20) The trailblazers
Author
Series
Publisher
Time-Life Books
Pub. Date
[1973]
Language
English
Description
Profusely illustrated account of the explorers, mountain men and trappers who blazed the trails of the early West, opening the way for the settlers.
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