Describes, in text and photographic illustrations, the duties, clothes, equipment, and day-to-day life of the cowboys who flourished in the west from the 1860's to the 1890's.
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.
