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Frontier and pioneer life Frontier and pioneer life West (U.S.) Frontier and pioneer life West (U.S.) Juvenile literature Travel West (U.S.) Description and travel West (U.S.) History 1848-1860 West (U.S.) History 1860-1890 West (U.S.) History 19th century West (U.S.) History To 1848 West United StatesKrohn, Katherine E.
Summary: Looks at the different modes of dress in the American West from the 1840s to the 1890s, examining the clothing and accessories of Native Americans, early pioneers, and the men and women of different social classes.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Twenty-first Century Books 2012
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 391.00973 KROTodras, Ellen H.
Summary: Investigates how early settlers traveled west towards the Pacific in wagon trains, and examines the hardships they faced and the towns they founded.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Kingfisher 2011
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 978.02 TODKalman, Bobbie.
Summary: This book introduces the life and times of the people from the Old West describing their homes, jobs, tools, clothes, and travel.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Crabtree Pub. Co. 2008
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 978 KALDumas, Marti
Summary: "Introduces the reader to women in the old West"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Children's Press, An imprint of Scholastic Inc. 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 305.4 DUMCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 920 DUMLuchetti, Cathy
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton 2001
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 978.02 LUCPagnamenta, Peter.
Summary: Recounts the lives and adventures of British aristocrats who explored and settled in the American West between 1830 and 1890, becoming landowners and making social adjustments to rub elbows with fur traders, Indians, and buffalo.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Co. 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 978.02 PAGMeloy, Ellen.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 2002
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 917.9 MELLassieur, Allison.
Summary: "Describes the people and events of the age of the Wild West in the year 1876. The reader's choices reveal the historical details from the perspective of an outlaw, a lawman, and a fortune-seeker in Deadwood, Dakota Territory"--Provided by publisher.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Capstone Press 2009
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC LAS BASKETNnachi, Ngeri
Summary: "There is more to the history of the transcontinental than connecting the United States. Most of the workers were of Chinese descent and were treated unfairly. Learn how workers protested for better treatment"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Lerner Publications 2023
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Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Forge 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 978.02 BLEKetcham, Christopher
Summary: "The public lands of the western United States comprise some 450 million acres of grassland, steppe land, canyons, forests, and mountains. It's an American commons, and it is under assault as never before. Journalist Christopher Ketcham has been documenting the confluence of commercial exploitation and governmental misconduct in this region for over a decade. His revelatory book takes the...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Viking, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 333.73 KETFreedman, Russell.
Summary: Describes, in text and illustrations, the duties, clothes, equipment, and day-to-day life of the cowboys who flourished in the west from the 1860's to the 1890's.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Clarion Books 1985
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 978 FRECollison, Campbell.
Summary: Readers learn how to make their own cowboy hats, gold nugget pouches, and woven baskets as they explore the history of the American West! These crafts and more are shown to readers through step-by-step instructions and helpful photographs of the process and the finished product. The included crafts are meant to enhance the lessons readers learn about the settlement of the West, including the...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: PowerKids Press Pub. 2015
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 978 COLSummary: Follows four men who, during a 3,000-mile trek from Mexico to Canada, encounter a herd of wild mustangs, which they tame and bring with them on the remainder of the journey. Discusses the plight of wild horses of America's West, animals who run the risk of being detained in federal holding pens sometimes for decades.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC UNBJosephson, Judith Pinkerton.
Summary: Describes what life was like for young people moving to and living on the western frontier.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Lerner Publications 2002
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 978 JOSWimmer, Chris
Summary: "From the creator of the "Legends of the Old West" podcast, a book exploring the overlapping narratives of the biggest legends in frontier mythology. The summer of 1876 was a key time period in the development of the mythology of the Old West. Many individuals who are considered legends by modern readers were involved in events that began their notoriety or turned out to be the most famous - or...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 978 WIMCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 978 WIMGwynne, S. C. (Samuel C.)
Summary: Describes the actions of both whites and Comanches during a 40-year war over territory, in a story that begins with the kidnapping of a white girl, who grew up to marry a Comanche chief and have a son, Quanah, who became a great warrior.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2010
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Summary: Acclaimed literary biographer Roy Morris carefully sorts fact from fiction to tell the story of a young genius finding his voice in the ramshackle mining camps, boomtowns, and newspaper offices of the wild and woolly West, while the Civil War rages half a continent away.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 TWAIN, MARK MORParkman, Francis
Summary: Presents accounts of a young man's travels on the Oregon Trail and a sojourn with the Oglala Indians.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Heritage Press 1943
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 978 PARGwynne, S. C. (Samuel C.)
Summary: A historical account of the forty-year battle between Comanche Indians and white settlers for control of the American West, centering on Quanah, the greatest Comanche chief of them all.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Tantor 2010
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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD 978.004 GWYHicks, Peter
Summary: Looks through the eyes of the fictional marshal of an imaginary town called Dustville to show what life was like on the Great Plains just after the Civil War.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: F. Watts 2002
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J Set You Wouldn't 978.02 HicksSlaughter, Thomas P. (Thomas Paul)
Summary: Exploring Lewis and Clark probes beneath the traditional narrative of the journey, looking beyond the perspectives of the explorers themselves to those of the woman and the men who accompanied them, as well as of the Indians who met them along the way. It reexamines the journals and what they suggest about Lewis's and Clark's misinterpretations of the worlds they passed through and the people...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2003