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Format:

Book

Author:

Title:

Which way to the Wild West? : everything your schoolbooks didn't tell you about America's westward expansion / by Steve Sheinkin ; illustrated by Tim Robinson.

Edition:

1st Roaring Brook Press ed.

Publisher, Date:

New York : Roaring Brook Press, 2009.

Description:

260 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm

Summary:

Presents the greatest adventures of America's Westward expansion, from the Louisiana Purchase and the gold rush to the Indian wars and life of the cowboy, as well as the everyday happenings that defined living on the frontier.

Subjects:

Frontier and pioneer life -- West (U.S.) -- Juvenile literature.

United States -- Territorial expansion -- Juvenile literature.

West (U.S.) -- Discovery and exploration -- Juvenile literature.

West (U.S.) -- History -- Juvenile literature.

Other Author:

Robinson, Tim, 1963-

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 231-241) and index.

Contents:

How The West Moved West -- Did Someone Say "Manifest Destiny"? -- War, Land, Gold, Trouble -- Welcome To The Wild West -- Out Of The Way Of The Big Engine -- Race You to Utah -- Cowboys VS. Farmers -- The Road To Little Bighorn -- The End Of The Wild West -- What Ever Happened To?

How the war moved West -- Did someone say "manifest destiny"? -- War, land, gold, trouble -- Welcome to the Wild West -- Out of the way of the big engine -- Race you to Utah -- Cowboys vs. Farmers -- The road to Little Bighorn -- The end of the Wild West -- What ever happened to ...?

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Contributor biographical information

Publisher description

LCCN:

2010277961

ISBN:

9781596436268

1596436263

0606375899

9780606375894

9781596433212

1596433213

Other Number:

297149616

System Availability:

1

Current Holds:

0

# Local items:

1

Control Number:

249586

# Local items in:

1

# System items in:

1

Call Number:

j 978.02 Sheinkin