Having separated from the one-armed trapper who taught him how to survive in the wilderness of the Old West, fifteen-year-old Francis gets lost and continues to have adventures involving dangerous men and a friendly mule.
"Barbie's family sets up a backyard campsite to try living like pioneers, but when her mother needs to get an important project to work and there is too much traffic for her to get it there on time, the girls come up with a way to save the day"--OCLC.
While living on the Rocky Ridge Farm in Missouri, thirteen-year-old Rose Wilder celebrates the turn of the twentieth century and begins to wonder about her future.
When his father disappears near the Mexican border at the end of the Civil War, twelve-year-old Tyler decides to go after him and bring him home, acquiring on the journey a strange dog which he names Bigger.
Text and photographs from a living history village in West Virginia re-create the pioneer life of young people in Appalachia in the early nineteenth century.
Details, in graphic form, what life was like on the Western frontier and discusses territorial expansion, the settling of Texas, the Gold Rush, and other related topics.
Details, in graphic form, frontier and pioneer life in the American West and discusses outlaws, legendary lawmen, relations with Native Americans, and other related topics.
