American community

Examines life in the cow towns that developed in the nineteenth century, primarily in Kansas, to provide goods and services to cattlemen looking to sell their herds.

Presents information on how the Spanish, during their exploration and settlement of Florida and the Southwestern U.S., established missions in an attempt to convert the native Americans to Catholicism, and explains how the missions changed regions where they were established. Includes time line.

Presents a children's study of the cultural and social life of the early American colonists including their homes and towns, businesses and trades, arts and crafts, and their associations and treaties with the Native American tribes on whose lands they settled.

Presents a children's study of early frontier settlements in America from the mid 1700s to the late 1800s and provides information on homesteads in the old Northwest Territories around the Great Lakes, their tools and crafts, businesses and trade, and ethnic diversity.

Presents a description of longhouses of the Iroquois, Native Americans of the northeast United States, and includes a short history of the Iroquois nation, their settlements, culture, clans, arts and crafts, trade and warfare, and religious beliefs as well as the influence of European colonists.