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Books on Western American individuals
Buffalo Bill Cody by Call Number: B BUFISBN: 9781604135282Publication Date: 2010
These books are in the library on the shelves. If you want to bring one home to read more, just ask!
Buffalo Bill Cody by Call Number: B CODISBN: 0766010155Publication Date: 1998-04-01
Cowboys of the Wild West by Call Number: 978 FREISBN: 0395548004Publication Date: 1990
Rough and Ready Cowboys by Call Number: 978 GINISBN: 1562612328Publication Date: 1996Examines the cowboy and his culture, including Mexican vaqueros, African American cowboys, and cowgirls.- Rough and Ready Homesteaders byCall Number: 978 GINISBN: 1887238085Publication Date: 1998This book explores what life was like for the homesteaders, adventurous people of America's western frontier.
Westward Expansion by Call Number: REF 978 PENISBN: 0787648620Publication Date: 2000A comprehensive overview of the westward expansion period of the U.S., 1763-1890, that also contains a time line and a glossary.
Westward Expansion by Call Number: REF 978 PENISBN: 0787648639Publication Date: 2000Presents biographical profiles of twenty-eight individuals significantly involved in the westward expansion of the U.S., from 1763 through 1890; also contains a time line and a glossary.
Westward Expansion by Call Number: REF 978 PENISBN: 0787648647Publication Date: 2000Presents seventeen primary documents, such as journal entries and newspaper articles, from the westward expansion period of the U.S., 1763-1890; also contains a time line and a glossary.- The Riches of the West byCall Number: 978 RICISBN: 0761301550Publication Date: 1996Uses contemporary pictures and maps in presenting the story of the trappers, miners, ranchers, and farmers who turned a huge wilderness into the "breadbasket of the world."
- The Opening of the West byCall Number: 978.02ISBN: 0761412018Publication Date: 2002Presents the history of the westward expansion of the United States in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries through excerpts from letters, newspaper articles, journal entries, and laws of the time.
Contents: The way West -- The frontier -- The explorers -- Mountain men and miners -- The overland trails -- Women and children in the West -- Living and working on the land -- Building the new West -- The fate of the Native Americans.
Buffalo Bill Articles in Gale Databases
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