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"Readers meet a young wagon train traveler and, through this first-person account, learn about life on the Oregon Trail."--Provided by publisher.

"Buffalo Bill was the founder and star of the legendary show that featured cowboys, Indians, trick riding, and sharpshooters. But long before stardom, Buffalo Bill-born Billy Cody-had to grow up fast. While homesteading in Kansas just before the Civil War, his family was caught up in the conflict with neighboring Missouri over whether Kansas would enter the Union as a free or slave state. To support his family after a pro-slaver killed his father, Billy-then eleven-herded cattle, worked on wagon trains, and rode the Pony Express. As the violence in Bleeding Kansas escalated, he joined the infamous Jayhawkers, seeking revenge on Missourians, and then became a soldier, scout, and spy in the Civil War-all by age seventeen"--Amazon.com.

Examines the life of hunter, woodsman, and frontiersman Davy Crockett, discussing his experiences as an American pioneer, Tennessee politician, and volunteer soldier.

When word leaks out that gold has been found on property owned by John Sutter in 1847, it changes his life and the course of American history forever.

Recounts the history of ten Americans--including Thomas Jefferson, Andrew Jackson, and David Crockett--and their involvement with the nation's westward expansion, as well as how the Western U.S. and its legacy have shaped the America of today.

A history of the Oregon Trail follows the route used by fur traders, mountain men, farmers, gold hunters, entrepreneurs, and others who made their way west, offering stories about the hardships and triumphs of the massive migration.

Biography of Erastus Smith, known as Deaf because of his inability to hear, celebrating the gumption that led the sickly man from New York to Texas where he became strong, married, earned the respect of his neighbors, and became a hero in Texas' fight for independence from Mexico.

Mike Kelly is adopted by the Friedrichs a German immigrant farm family living in Missouri. His new stepmother is very kind but his step father is strict. And as for their son Gunther, he is a real bully who find countless ways to get Mike into deep trouble.