We all love to tell stories to kids--and later kids love to explore what they love to read. This tale of the American West is a familiar story to adults, but to children it is new and fresh. It is also an awe inspiring story of bravery, adventure, and a clash of cultures. A great read in fact!
24 See Anne M. Butler, Daughters of Joy, Sisters of Misery: Prostitutes in the American West, 1865–1890 (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1985), 50–1. 25 Susan Lee Johnson, Roaring Camp: The Social World of the California Gold Rush ...
When a newspaper reporter asked J. W. Eastman, the director, why he carried a six-shooter, Eastman replied: “It's my baton.” “Is it loaded?” asked the reporter. “Yes,” said Eastman. “What for?” continued the reporter.
An excellent field guide to exotic and invasive plants is Sylvan R. Kaufman and Wallace Kaufman, Invasive Plants: A Guide ... 1998), and John C. Hudson's Across This Land: A Regional Geography of the United States and Canada (Baltimore, ...
His reputation as an Army Scout was enough to land him a job as Deputy Sheriff of Yavapai County, Arizona, (a position once held by Johnny Behan) working for Bucky O'Neil and Commodore Perry Owens. In 1890 the Pinkerton National ...
This revealing volume offers fascinating portraits of the people and institutions that drove the Western conquest (traders and trappers, ranchers and settlers, corporations, the federal government), as well as of those who resisted conquest ...
Frederic Remington , “ A Few Words from Mr. Remington , ” Collier's Weekly , March 18 , 1905 , p . ... Several of these letters are quoted in Vorpahl , My Dear Wister : The Frederic RemingtonOwen Wister Letters ( Palo Alto , Calif .
Official National Park illustrated handbook chronicles how the land between the Mississippi River and the Pacific Ocean was explored, mapped, photographed, and settled between 1803 and 1879. Part one includes...
Tracing the sectionalization of American politics in the 1840s and 1850s, Michael Morrison offers a comprehensive study of how slavery and territorial expansion intersected as causes of the Civil War.
And “accepting complexity and approaching it with new tools will create a new West—which, like the old West, will demand our redoubled attentions.”27 When it comes to the study of risk and vulnerability, the Great Plains West is a key ...
According to Victor, 'Manifest destiny seemed to have raised him up, together with many others, bold, hardy, and fearless men, to become sentinels on the outposts of civilization.' Meek and his brethren duly emerged as 'the hardy ...