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Author
Series
Magic tree house fact trackers volume 38
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Track the facts about cowboys, ghost towns, outlaws, and more! When Jack and Annie came back from their adventure in Magic Tree House #10: Ghost Town at Sundown , they had lots of questions. What is a ghost town? Why do we call the Old West wild? What are cowboys? Who was Billy the Kid? Find out the answers to these questions and more as Jack and Annie track the facts about the American West.Filled with up-to-date information, photographs, illustrations,...
Author
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
Granville Stuart (1834-1918) is a quintessential Western figure, a man whose adventures rival those of Wyatt Earp, Buffalo Bill, or Sitting Bull, and who embodied many of the contradictions of America's westward expansion. Stuart collected guns, herded cattle, mined for gold, and killed men he thought outlaws. But he also taught himself Shoshone, French, and Spanish, denounced formal religion, married a Shoshone woman, and eventually became a United...
1123) Jesse James
Author
Publisher
Enslow Publishers
Pub. Date
c1992
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A biography of the outlaw who, with his brother Frank, led a gang of bank and train robbers from the late 1860s through the 1870s. Also includes a glossary and a further reading list.
Author
Publisher
Huzzah Publishing
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
A literary nonfiction biography of Mary Fields' life in Montana from 1885 until her death in 1914. "The narrative examines women rights, bootleg politics, Montana's turn-of-the-century transition from territory to state and its scandalous 1914 woman suffrage election."
Series
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2009]
Edition
Full screen/widescreen.
Language
English
Description
In The searchers, a Civil War veteran spends five years on the trail of a Comanche raiding party that kidnapped his dead brother's daughter.
In Fort Apache, a calvary officer whose by-the-book tactics and ignorance of the western frontier cause him to lead his men into a fatal Apache ambush.
In Rio Bravo, a Texas border sheriff fights off hired gunmen to keep a murderer in custody.
In The cowboys, a rancher is deserted by his regular cattle drivers...
1128) The European challenge
Publisher
Time-Life Books
Pub. Date
c1992
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 10 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Gives an account of the early encounters of the Indians of North American with Europeans.
Author
Publisher
Gareth Stevens Pub
Pub. Date
2002
Edition
North American ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A description of the struggles of the English settlers in the colony of Jamestown, from 1607 to 1698, and their relationship with the neighboring Algonquian Indians.
Author
Publisher
Mountain Press
Pub. Date
c2000
Language
English
Description
Describes the experiences of children and teenagers who made overland journeys in nineteenth-century America, including the California, Oregon, and Mormon trails, and presents profiles of ten individual children, adolescents, and sets of siblings.
1134) Villa lobos
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
Large print edition.
Language
English
Description
"Sergeant Andrew Cade and seven troopers are hard on the trail of the Hollister Gang, determined to free a trio of women Ben Hollister and his men have taken captive after a raid on the town of Rio Largo, Texas. Crossing the Rio Grande into Mexico should have guaranteed the outlaws' safety. But they hadn't counted on the iron-tough sergeant's determination to finish his mission. Meanwhile, in Mexico, José Yanez and his Hunters have just massacred...
1135) The Oregon Trail
Author
Series
Publisher
Magic Wagon
Pub. Date
c2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Describes, in graphic form, the history of the Oregon Trail; and includes a time line and a glossary.
1136) The grub rider
Author
Series
Publisher
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
Large print edition.
Language
English
Description
Mysterious forces drive Gabe Allen to leave home in search of the Keystone Ranch. Job by job, handout by handout, he finally makes it. But his next journey will be far more dangerous, more demanding. He is to see an arrogant lady safely home to her own ranch where her sister is being held hostage by an outlaw gang whose leader is almost certainly insane. Gabe s only weapons are his wit, ingenuity, and a .44 revolver; but what can one man and one gun...
1137) The Oregon Trail
Author
Publisher
Gareth Stevens Pub
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
In graphic novel format, relates the trials endured by people travelling the Oregon Trail in the mid-1800s, on their way to promised free land in the Oregon Territory.
Author
Series
Publisher
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
Large print edition.
Language
English
Description
"Professor Henry Whiteoak is a salesman, a con artist, and a cheat. Traveling in a brightly colored wagon, he sells chemical concoctions and steeply priced contraptions to any and all who attend his medicine shows. When he arrives in the small town of Barbrady, Kansas, Henry Whiteoak also shows his talents in a fight and a mind that's sharper than a stiletto. While Whiteoak may be a swindler, he is not one to turn away from those who are in need...
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
Large print edition.
Language
English
Description
"Young doctor Gabriel Kincaid has come west to help an aging colleague who is straining to deal with the demands of a growing town, but Kincaid is looking to do more than just experience the challenges of frontier medicine. He's determined to start a new life. But the trials he faces aren't confined to the doctor's surgery. After an incident in a saloon, Gabe finds himself with a new nickname: Dr. Death. It's dangerous to have a reputation as a good...
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