| Description |
xxix, 260 pages ; 24 cm |
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age Children |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 255-256) and index. |
| Contents |
Exploring the west -- The journals of Lewis and Clark / William Clark and Meriwether Lewis -- Adventures of Zenas Leonard fur trader; Zenas Leonard (box); fashion spurs exploration (box) / Zenas Leonard -- The life of Col. John Charles Fremont, and his narrative of explorations and adventures in Kansas, Nebraska, Oregon, and California / John C. Fremont -- Indian wars -- The trail of tears (box) / Indian removal act of 1830 -- Congressional testimony of John S. Smith / John S. Smith -- Wooden Leg: a warrior who fought Custer; Wooden Leg (box) / Wooden Leg -- Settling the west -- Commerce of the prairies / Josiah Gregg -- The American settler's guide: a popular exposition of the public land system of the United States America / Henry N. Copp -- Narrarive of my captivity; Among the Sioux Indians / Fanny Kelly -- "A lady grows old in Texas"; Women homesteaders (box); Sod house and dugout (box) / Elise Amalie Waerenskjold -- The cowboy life -- Nat Love -- The life an adventures of Nat Love, better known in the cattle country as "deadwood dick" -- Nat love (box) -- We pointed them north / E. C. "teddy blue" Abbott -- No life for a lady / Ngnes Morley Cleaveland -- The gold rush -- Reminiscences of early San Francisco 1847-48; Edward Kemble (box) / Edward Kemble -- Gold rush diary: being the journal oof Elisha Douglass Perkins on the overland trail in the spring and summer of 1849; Elisha Douglass Perkins (box) / Elisha Douglass Perkins -- Daily Alta California, January 18, 1849; Daily Alta California, January 15, 1851; Daily Alta California, January 21, 1851; Sacramento union, February 3, 1855 / Native Americans and the California gold rush -- The closing of the frontier -- Frederick Jackson Turner (box); "The significance of the frontier in American history" / Frederick Jackson Turner |
| Subject |
United States -- Territorial expansion -- Sources -- Juvenile literature.
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United States. |
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Territorial expansion. |
| Genre/Form |
Sources.
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| Subject |
West (U.S.) -- History -- Sources -- Juvenile literature.
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United States -- Territorial expansion -- Study and teaching.
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West (U.S.) -- History -- Study and teaching.
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| Added Author |
Pendergast, Sara.
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Slovey, Christine.
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| ISBN |
0787648647 |
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9780787648640 |
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