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Bill Pickett: Rodeo Ridin' Cowboy
This book tells about the life of a rodeo-riding African American cowboy. The book ends with a two-page history of Black cowboys.
| Author: Pinkney, Andrea Davis |
HSE Descriptors:
language arts - reading
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Black Cowboy Wild Horses
This book is based on the true story of Bob Lemmons, a former slave, whose adventures as a cowboy in Texas were legendary.
| Author: Lester, Julius |
HSE Descriptors:
social studies
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Children of the Great Depression
With the aid of archival photographs from The Farm Security Administration, Freedman tells the poignant story of the humiliation, poverty, migration, lack of schooling, and back-breaking work faced by children during the Great Depression of the 1930's in
| Author: Freedman, Russell |
HSE Descriptors:
social studies
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Ghost Towns
Color photographs and colorful text describe many ghost towns in the American West. The author includes a list of books for further reading.
| Author: Bial, Raymond |
HSE Descriptors:
social studies
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It Is a Good Day to Die
A brief introduction explains why the account of Custer's battle at Little Bighorn is told through individual recollections long after the encounter. In addition to the personal accounts, the book includes a helpful chronology of events, short biographie
| Author: Viola, Herman |
HSE Descriptors:
social studies
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John Muir: America's First Environmentalist
From a work-filled childhood as an immigrant from Scotland, self-taught John Muir worked to study and save the wilderness he loved, resulting in the first protected National Park at Yosemite and the founding of the Sierra Club for conservation. The autho
| Author: Lasky, Kathryn |
HSE Descriptors:
science
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This Vast Land
A fictional account of a young man on the real Lewis and Clark Expedition emphasizes and personalizes the confrontation of races and the conflict between civilization and the wilderness. There are allusions to sex, though minimal.
| Author: Ambrose, Stephen |
HSE Descriptors:
social studies
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Words West: Voices of Young Pioneers
Diary and journal excerpts and archival photographs enliven a well-written text about the Westward Movement as seen from the perspective of children. The book includes short biographies of the children who are quoted often as well as a chronology, furthe
| Author: Wadsworth, Ginger |
HSE Descriptors:
social studies
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Yellowstone Moran:Painting the American West
A true story of how Tom Moran traded his city environs for a chance to join a scientific expedition to Yellowstone and record the wonders in his paintings. The author researched letters and journals of the famous Hayden expedition into Yellowstone Nationa
| Author: Judge, Lita |
HSE Descriptors:
language arts - reading | social studies | language arts - writing
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