Describes the Oregon Trail and the pioneers who settled in the Pacific Northwest.

Brief text chronicles the activities of the homesteaders who settled the vast American prairies during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Features first-hand accounts.

A graphic novel account of the life and tales of Davey Crockett, early american pioneer, adventurer, soldier, and politician.

An introduction to what life was like on the Oregon Trail, describing the wagons, daily routines, food, clothing, Native Americans encountered on the way, and dangers.

Since the establishment of the American colonies, the frontier expanded westward steadily until the country bordered both the Atlantic and Pacific oceans. Soldiers, explorers, missionaries, and fur traders were the first Europeans to penetrate the country's interior. Soon, gold miners, dirt farmers, and cattle ranchers followed, blazing dangerous trails across barren lands and snow-topped mountain ranges. American Indians were too few to stop the...

"In the 1870s, a Black family undertakes a perilous wagon journey westward for a tenuous shot at freedom in Nebraska"--