west (u.s.)

As the only survivors of an Indian attack on their wagon train, young Hardy Collins and little Betty Sue struggle to survive and find help on the deserted prairie.

"Florida, USA, 1969. It's a day that will go down in history: the day astronauts first landed on the Moon! But while Apollo 11 is preparing to launch from Cape Canaveral, the Pirate Cats are sneaking around the Mouse Island Space Center. What are they planning? And will Geronimo be able to follow their trail, even if it leads him into outer space?"--Back cover.

Grizz Brickbottom, toughest cowboy in the West, yearns for a companion and convinces his cattle-rustling cohorts that they need a dog to help with the work.

A collection of short stories by Willa Cather that discuss the conflict between East and West and the artistic temperament in America.

Gives an account of the journey undertaken by Meriwether Lewis and William Clark, when they led their "Corps of Discovery" to explore the interior of North America.

Meriwether Lewis and William Clark were the two figures at the heart of the Corps of Discovery. Students will learn how these two men first met and how they came to be tasked with this expedition.

Recounts the first attempt of John Jacob Astor and President Thomas Jefferson in 1810 to send advance parties both overland and by sea to settle the western Coast of North America, in what is now Oregon, and the ultimate failure of the expedition.

This wordless tale depicts a great chase that ends with a surprising twist.

A biography of the army officer and explorer who discovered, among other places in the West and Southwest, the great Rocky Mountain peak in Colorado that bears his name.

Presents the life of Kit Carson, who was a legendary scout, mountain man, and soldier of the Old West.