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Frontier and pioneer life Frontier and pioneer life West (U.S.) Immigrants United States Indians of North America History Mississippi River Valley History United States Territorial expansion West (U.S.) History West (U.S.) History Juvenile literature West United States États-Unis (Ouest) HistoireDumas, 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 DUMPeavy, 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 PEALittlefield, Holly
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: This program explains how the transcontinental railroad was built, and then how it opened up the West to European settlers and brought on the extermination of the buffalo and the defeat of Southern Plains Indian tribes. Viewers will witness the transformation through first-person accounts from Native Americans, European immigrants, Chinese laborers, buffalo hunters, homesteaders from the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1996
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Summary: Tom Bodett explores the trails that extended America's frontiers. He follows the footsteps and wagon ruts of rugged pioneers, dauntless homesteaders, reclusive mountain men, and stop-at-nothing gold hunters as they explored, settled, and worked the new land.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Questar 2002
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Summary: Many Americans who set out to change the West found the West changed them instead. This program explores a broad panorama of western experiences: those of Great Plains homesteaders and farmers, Chinese immigrants and Hispanic townspeople in California, Mormons in Utah, Buffalo Bill Cody, cowboys during the fall of the great ranching boom, African-American sharecroppers seeking a “promised...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1996
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Yasuda, Anita.
Summary: Explores the Wild West, including the lay of the land, gold-rush miners, moving west, pioneer life, frontier towns, Native people, and cowboys.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Nomad Press 2012
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 978.02 YASSummary: It tells the story of the aftermath of the Civil War and how the United States transformed into the "land of opportunity" spanning the years 1865 to 1890. Viewers will be transported into the violent world of cowboys, Indians, outlaws, and lawmen. The eight-episode limited event series chronicles the personal, little-known stories of Western legends such as Jesse James, Billy the Kid, Wyatt...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV AMEParry, Rosanne
Summary: Young colt Sky was born with the urge to run. Alongside his band, he moves across the range searching for fresh water and abundant grazing. But humans have begun to encroach on Sky's homelands. With fewer resources to share, Sky knows that he must leave if his family is to survive. He hopes that one day, he'll be strong and brave enough to return and challenge the stallion to lead the herd....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Greenwillow Books, An Imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC PARAmbrose, Stephen E.
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Publisher / Publication Date: National Geographic 2002
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 977 AMBBrands, H. W
Summary: Brands tells the thrilling, panoramic story of the settling of the American West. He takes readers from John Jacob Astor's fur trading outpost in Oregon to the Texas Revolution, from the California gold rush to the Oklahoma land rush. When Napoleon offered to sell French Louisiana, America was launched on a fateful and fraught journey west. Brands takes us from John Jacob Astor's fur trading...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Basic Books 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 978 BRAHickman, Katie
Summary: "As the internationally bestselling historian Katie Hickman writes, "Myth and misunderstanding spring from the American frontier as readily as rye grass from sod, and - like the wiry grass - seem as difficult to weed out and discard." But the true-life story of women's experiences in the Wild West is more gripping, heart-rending, and stirring than all the movies, novels, folk-legends, and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Spiegel & Grau 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 978 HICCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: 978 HICSummary: From Mexican landowners in California to Native American tribes in the Black Hills of South Dakota, this film examines various perspectives on territorial claims to the West and the history of U.S. annexation. This program explains how events, such as the Texas War of Independence, opened the door to U.S. annexation. Diary excerpts, letters, and other primary resources vividly portray the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1996
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Summary: Through first-hand accounts, viewers relive the rush for gold and other opportunities in the West and witness the effect of westward migrations on Native Americans. This program explores the adventures of the ’49ers on the overland trails and witness the prosperity of the gold rush towns like San Francisco, as well as broken treaties with the Plains Indians and the slaughter of Native American...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1996
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Summary: Experience the rich cultural diversity of Native American tribes and the impact that early white explorers had on their lives. In this program, viewers will learn about the mysterious disappearance of the Anasazi culture and the successful Pueblo revolt against their Spanish conquerors. First-person accounts bring to life the adventures of early explorers, from Cabeza de Vaca, the first white...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1996
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Graham, Ian
Summary: A humorous look at the U.S. biggest construction project, the building of the transcontinental railroad and the laborers needed, the working conditions, and the low pay.
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Publisher / Publication Date: F. Watts 2001
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J Set You Wouldn't 331.7 Graham 2001Patrick, Bethanne Kelly.
Summary: Describes the construction, purpose, daily life, and inhabitants of six Western forts, Fort Clatsop, the Presidio, Fort Leavenworth, Fort Laramie, Fort Sill, and Fort Hood.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mason Crest Publishers 2003
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 355.7 PATSummary: Lost mines, abandoned diggings, ghost towns. The very words conjure enigmatic images of the Old West, of the thousands of towns and mining camps that boomed and died during that brief era when men scrambled through unexplored territory, searching for the next big gold strike.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC GHOPatterson, James
Summary: "What happens in Vegas stays in Vegas--until now. James Patterson shows the real Vegas in a dazzling journey through true stories of excess, drama, and hope. In What Really Happens in Vegas, full of surprises for both newcomers and Las Vegas regulars, James Patterson and Vanity Fair contributing editor Mark Seal transport readers from the thrill of adrenaline-fueled vice to the glitter of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2023
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1 available in New Non-fiction, Call number: 979.3 PATSummary: This film explores the final subjugation of defiant Indian tribes and other holdouts to federal authority in the West. Included in this program are balanced, up-to-date portrayals of many of the most memorable characters from America's past, including George Armstrong Custer, Sitting Bull, Brigham Young, and Chief Joseph.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1996
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Allitt, Patrick
Summary: Experience the grit and the glory of the early American West with an acclaimed Great Courses professor.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 978 AMEUtley, Robert Marshall
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Publisher / Publication Date: Macmillan 1967
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.6 UTLBarber, John Warner
Summary: "Barber and Howe go west! This 1868 collaboration from American historians John Warner Barber (1798-1885) and Henry Howe (1816-1893) surveys twenty-one states (Alabama, Arkansas, California, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Nebraska, Nevada, Ohio, Oregon, Tennessee, Texas, West Virginia, and Wisconsin) and nine territories...
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Publisher / Publication Date: New England Historic Genealogical Society 2019