A biography of the outlaw who, with his brother Frank, led a gang of bank and train robbers from the late 1860s through the 1870s. Includes a glossary, a further reading list, and related Internet addresses.
Presents a short history of the western mountain regions of the United States and Canada and the early explorers responsible for mapping and charting the wilderness including surveyors, fur trappers and Indian fighters, and settlers.
Recounts the history of the ninth and tenth Cavalry regiments, comprised of African American soldiers recruited to open the West to settlers and whose deeds included escorting wagon trains, carrying mail, and fighting battles against Native Americans.
Introduces some of the criminals, lawmen, enterprising women, soldiers, cowboys, and characters who settled in the untamed American West in the second half of the nineteenth century, including Jesse James, Billy the Kid, Annie Oakley, and others.
In 1866, fifteen-year-old Aidan and his thirteen-year-old sister Maddy, penniless orphans, leave drought-stricken Kansas on a wagon train hoping for a better life in Seattle, but find there are still many hardships to be faced.
