Did you know that wheels and axles help move things far and fast? They can also make it easier for people to turn things. Learn how wheels have changed the world and more in this book.
Los jo?venes lectores explorara?n la vida como un pionero y aprender lo que significa vivir en Estados Unidos hoy. Tambie?n se incluyen las hermosas fotografi?as y mapas y textos claros y divertido.
Discusses the various kinds of wheeled transportation that made possible the settling of the Western frontier, from the first vehicles brought by the Spaniards in 1590 to the development of the railroads.
Looks at the role that stagecoaches and Conestoga wagons played in carrying mail and passengers throughout America, and especially the West, during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.