Provides an introduction to Sacagawea, a young Native American woman who joined the Lewis and Clark expedition as a translator and guide, and played an important role in the mission's success.
Ranger, a golden retriever, could have been a great search-and-rescue-dog except for the squirrels--but one day he unearths a mysterious box and finds himself transported back to the year 1850 where his faithful service is really needed by a family traveling west along the Oregon Trail.
In 1848, while on a wagon train headed for Oregon, fourteen-year-old Francis Tucket is kidnapped by Pawnee Indians and then falls in with a one-armed trapper who teaches him how to live in the wild.
After fur trapper Hugh Glass is viciously mauled by a grizzly bear, he seeks revenge on the two men of his hunting party who robbed him and left him for dead. With grit and determination, Glass sets out crawling inch by inch across more than three thousand miles of uncharted American frontier in 1823.
Examines what life was like during the Westward Expansion, exploring the clothing, schooling, family life, and more. Includes fact boxes, visuals, glossary, and index.
Examines various types of dwellings in western Northern America during the nineteenth century, discussing their construction and design as well as the lives of the settlers who lived in them.
