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Frontier and pioneer life West (U.S.) Frontier and pioneer life West (U.S.) Juvenile literature Overland journeys to the Pacific Pioneers West (U.S.) Pioneers West (U.S.) Biography West (U.S.) History West (U.S.) History 1848-1860 West (U.S.) History 1860-1890 West (U.S.) History To 1848 West (U.S.) Social life and customs 19th century Juvenile literatureDumas, Marti
Summary: "Introduces the reader to women in the old West"--
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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 DUMMcLaird, James D.
Contents: Princeton, Missouri, 1856-1864 -- To Montana and Wyoming, 1864-1874 -- To black hills expedition of 1875 -- With crook in 1876 -- With Wild Bill Hickok in Deadwood, 1876 -- Dime novel heroine, 1877 -- Life in Dakota, 1878-1881 -- Following the northern Pacific, 1882-1884 -- Life in Wyoming, 1884-1894 -- A Deadwood celebrity, 1895-1896 -- Life in Montana, 1896-1901 -- The Pan-American...
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Oklahoma Press 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 CALAMITY JANE MCLPeavy, Linda S.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Smithmark 1996
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 978.02 PEAWallis, Michael
Summary: In the eerily warm spring of 1846, George Donner placed this advertisement in a local newspaper as he and a restless caravan prepared for what they hoped would be the most rewarding journey of a lifetime. But in eagerly pursuing what would a century later become known as the "American dream," this optimistic-yet-motley crew of emigrants was met with a chilling nightmare; in the following...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Company 2017
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Summary: Discusses how the United States gained ownership of the Oregon Territory, who discovered the best routes west, and the obstacles pioneers faced on their journeys along the Oregon Trail.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Children's Press 2013
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 917.804 FRICopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 978.02 FRITodras, 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kingfisher 2011
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Summary: Explores the experiences of American children who traveled west to Oregon or California on wagon trains between 1841 and 1869, focusing on transportation, chores, recreation, and dangers.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Carolrhoda Books 1999
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Explore how William "Buffalo Bill" Cody's legendary exploits helped create a myth that endures even today. Features the life of the master showman who became part of American history.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by PBS Home Video 2008
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 978.02 ROBMcLynn, Frank.
Summary: In all the sagas of human migration, few can top the drama of the journey by midwestern farmers to Oregon and California in the years 1840-49. Seeking the promised land, these travelers trekked two thousand miles by covered wagon from Missouri to their destinations on the Pacific coast. Although they used mountain men as guides, they went almost literally into the unknown, braving dangers from...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grove Press 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 978.02 MCLPagnamenta, 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Co. 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 978.02 PAGPeavy, Linda S.
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Oklahoma Press 1994
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.8 PEAHicks, 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: F. Watts 2002
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J Set You Wouldn't 978.02 HicksBlevins, Winfred.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Forge 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 978.02 BLEDeArment, Robert K.
Summary: After describing Masterson the Western hero, DeArment continues the story of Masterson's later life as a fight promoter and a New York newspaperman.
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Oklahoma Press 1979
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MASColeman, Jon T.
Summary: Explores period frontier life and contradictory accounts in an effort to discern the true story of a 19th-century bear-mauling victim who pursued vengeance against the companions who left him for dead.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hill and Wang 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 GLASS, HUGH COLHamilton, W. T. (William Thomas)
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Publisher / Publication Date: Time-Life Books 1982
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 978 HAMKrohn, 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Twenty-first Century Books 2012
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 391.00973 KROMcMurtry, Larry.
Contents: The West without chili -- Inventing the West -- Chopping down the sacred tree -- A heroine of the prairies -- Zuni -- Cookie pioneers -- Powell of the Colorado -- Pulpmaster -- Janet Lewis -- The American epic -- Sacagawea's nickname -- Old misery.
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Publisher / Publication Date: New York Review Books 2001
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 978.02 MCMLuchetti, Cathy
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton 2001