|
This book describes how people traveling on the Oregon Trail lived, discussing their reasons for going west, modes of transportation, and more.
| -
|
|
The Oregon Trail in American History
by Stefoff, Rebecca, 1951- .
|
|  |
|
| -
|
|
A covered wagon girl the diary of Sallie Hester, 1849-1850
by Hester, Sallie ; Steele, Christy ; Hodgson, Ann .
|
| 
|
|
Excerpts from the diary of a fourteen-year-old girl tell of her family's journey along the Oregon-California Trail during 1849-1850.
| -
|
|
Oregon Trail, The
by Parkman, Francis .
|
|
|
978 PAR
|
| -
|
|
Monument Rock
by L'Amour, Louis .
|
|
|
|
Monument Rockfeatures eight Louis L'Amour Western stories that have never been published including the magnificent short novel, "Monument Rock," masterful storytelling from the author whose very name evokes the power and majesty of the great American West.
| -
|
|
Ashes
by Lasky, Kathryn .
|
|
|
FIC LAS
|
In 1932 Berlin, thirteen-year-old Gaby Schramm witnesses the beginning of Hitler's rise to power, as soldiers become ubiquitous, her beloved literature teacher starts wearing a jewelled swastika pin, and the family's dear friend, Albert Einstein, leaves the country while Gaby's parents secretly bury his books and papers in their small yard.
| -
|
|
|
|
|
|
| -
|
|
The war within : a novel of the Civil War
by Matas, Carol .
|
|
|
FIC MAT
|
| -
|
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
Prairie songs
by Conrad, Pam .
|
| 
|
FIC CON
|
Louisa's life in a loving pioneer family on the Nebraska prairie is altered by the arrival of a new doctor and his beautiful, tragically frail wife.
|
|
|
Life as a Pioneer
by Rybak, Bob .
|
|
|
|
book on pioneer life
| -
|
|
Swift rivers
by Meigs, Cornelia .
|
|
|
|
After being turned out by his mean-spirited uncle, Chris Dahlberg decides to harvest some of the timber on his grandfather's land in Minnesota and float the giant logs down the Mississippi River to market in St. Louis.
| -
|
|
Early loggers and the sawmill /
|
by Adams, Peter .
|
|
On Order
|
| -
|
|
Her father's daughter
by Poupeney, Mollie .
|
|
|
|
During the Depression era of the 1930s Maggie grows up in logging camps and small towns of Oregon while living in the midst of a troubled family with an abusive father.
| -
|
|
|
|
|
|
| -
|
|
Gladiator
by Gram, Dewey ; Franzoni, David ; Logan, John ; Nicholson, William .
|
|
|
|
| -
|
|
|
|
|
|
| -
|
|
West to a land of plenty : the diary of Teresa Angelino Viscardi
by Murphy, Jim .
|
|
|
|
While traveling in 1883 with her Italian American family (including a meddlesome little sister) and other immigrant pioneers to a utopian community in Idaho, fourteen-year-old Teresa keeps a diary of her experiences along the way.
| -
|
|
|
|
|
|
| -
|
|
Bat 6
by Wolff, Virginia Euwer .
|
|
|
FIC WOL
|
In small town, post-World War Oregon, twenty-one 6th grade girls recount the story of an annual softball game, during which one girl's bigotry comes to the surface.
| -
|
|
|
|
|
|
| -
|
|
Brides of Eden : a true story imagined
by Crew, Linda .
|
|
|
|
| -
|
|
The journal of Joshua Loper : a Black cowboy / by Walter Dean Myers
|
|
|
On order
|
In 1871 Joshua Loper, a sixteen-year-old black cowboy, records in his journal his experiences while making his first cattle drive under an unsympathetic trail boss.
| -
|
|
Black pioneers : an untold story
by Katz, William Loren .
|
|
|
977 KAT
|
| -
|
|
The gates of the Alamo : a novel
by Harrigan, Stephen .
|
|
|
|
Naturalist Edmund McGowan, and widowed innkeeper Mary Mott find themselves drawn to each other as they travel together in pursuit of Mary's sixteen-year-old son Terrell, whose first shattering experience with love has led him to war.
| -
|
|
The Alamo in American history
by Sorrels, Roy .
|
|
|
|
| -
|
|
|
|
|
|
| -
|
|
The gadget
by Zindel, Paul .
|
|
|
|
In 1945, having joined his father at Los Alamos, where he and other scientists are working on a secret project to end World War II, thirteen-year-old Stephen becomes caught in a web of secrecy and intrigue.
| -
|
|
The ultimate weapon : the race to develop the atomic bomb
by Sullivan, Edward T .
|
|
|
|
| -
|
|
|
|
|
|
| -
|
|
The Big Burn
by Ingold, Jeanette .
|
|
|
FIC ING
|
Three teenagers battle the flames of the Big Burn of 1910, one of the century's biggest wildfires.
| -
|
|
|
|
|
|
| -
|
|
Hitch
by Ingold, Jeanette .
|
|
|
|
To help his family during the Depression and avoid becoming a drunk like his father, Moss Trawnley joins the Civilian Conservation Corps, helps build a new camp near Monroe, Montana, and leads the other men in making the camp a success.
| -
|
|
The 1930s
by Gerdes, Louise I .
|
|
|
973.91 GER
|
Presents a history of life in the United States in the 1930s, including information on the Great Depression and the New Deal, the golden age of radio, the Lindbergh baby kidnapping, labor unrest, and more.
| -
|
|
|
|
|
|
| -
|
|
Miranda's Last Stand
|
Whelan ,Gloria
|
|
ON ORDER
|
After her mother is hired by Buffalo Bill Cody to paint backdrops for his Wild West Show, Miranda encounters some Indian children whom she gradually realizes are the relatives of the men who killed her father in the Battle of Little Big Horn.
| -
|
|
Custer's last stand
by Streissguth, Thomas .
|
|
|
973.8 STR
|
Using primary and secondary sources, this volume examines the controversial history of the Battle at the Little Bighorn
| -
|
|
The coffin quilt : the feud between the Hatfields and the McCoys
by Rinaldi, Ann .
|
|
|
|
In the 1880s, young Fanny McCoy witnesses the growth of a terrible and violent feud between her Kentucky family and the West Virginia Hatfields, complicated by her older sister Roseanna's romance with a Hatfield.
| -
|
|
The Hatfields and the McCoys
Contributor(s): Rice, Otis K (Author)
|
|
|
On Order
|
Using court records, public documents, official correspondence, contemporary newspapers, and other documentary evidence, Otis Rice here presents an account that frees, as much as possible, fact from fiction, event from legend.
| -
|
|
Ballad of Calamity Creek
by Friermood, Elisabeth Hamilton .
|
|
|
|
An early 20th-century Kentucky hills setting is the interesting background for this teen coming of age story. When her father put his foot down, saying that one year of college was quite enough for any girl, Ann Todd left Indianapolis for the newly established Stoney Hill, deep in the mountains of southeast Kentucky.
| -
|
|
The United States of Appalachia: How Southern Mountaineers Brought Independence, Culture, and Enlightenment to America
|
|
|
ON ORDER
|
From the first declaration of independence to the beginnings of folk music, literature, and poetry, Biggers reveals how so many of our nation's basic freedoms and founding moments grew out of the Appalachians.
| -
|
|
In the days of the vaqueros : America's first true cowboys
by Freedman, Russell .
|
|
|
|
| -
|
|
Johnny Tremain
|
Forbes, Esther .
|
|
FIC TRE
|
After injuring his hand, a silversmith's apprentice in Boston becomes a messenger for the Sons of Liberty in the days before the American Revolution.
| -
|
|
|
|
|
|
| -
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Yüklə 10.2 Mb.