west (u.s.)

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.

Leaving behind her Virginia home burned to ashes during the Civil War and a husband shot and killed on the way to Colorado, Mary Breydon and her young daughter come to manage a rundown stagecoach station on the Cherokee Trail.

Fired from her job and run out of Piedmont in the Wyoming Territory on account of her unladylike manner, Martha Jane Cannary saddles up and makes her way to Fort Sanders.

Readers learn how to make their own cowboy hats, gold nugget pouches, and woven baskets as they explore the history of the American West!.

Explores the history, and present culture of Native Americans from the Great Basin region, including the Shoshone, Paiute, and Washoe.

Examines the lives and crimes of Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid.

Paintings, maps, and journal sketches and entries help chronicle Lewis and Clark's journey from St. Louis down the Missouri River and over the Rocky and Bitterroot mountains.

Del Tackett sets out in pursuit of rustlers and murderers who are trying to ruin a ranch owned by a young woman.

Historical photographs with explanatory text present a picture of life in the American West from 1840 to the early 1900s.