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Genre/Form: | Biography collective biographies Literature Biographies History Juvenile works Littérature Juvenile literature Biography Juvenile literature Ouvrages pour la jeunesse |
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Additional Physical Format: | Online version: McPherson, James M. Into the West. New York : Atheneum Books for Young Readers, ©2006 (OCoLC)894798799 |
Material Type: | Juvenile audience |
Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
James M McPherson |
ISBN: | 0689865430 9780689865435 1416928227 9781416928225 |
OCLC Number: | 61687645 |
Description: | 96 pages : illustrations (some color), color map ; 27 cm |
Contents: | Civil War -- Reconstruction begins: 1863-1864 -- Homestead Act -- American frontier: 1865 -- First settlers: Native Americans -- Assassination of President Abraham Lincoln, Andrew Johnson and presidential reconstruction -- "Contrabands" and Freedmen -- Carpetbaggers and scalawags -- Transcontinental Railroad -- Civil War amendments -- Land and social reform in the South -- Sodbusters and barbed wire -- Congressional reconstruction -- Impeachment of Andrew Johnson -- President Ulysses S. Grant -- Corruption, scandal, and the Civil Service -- Immigrants -- Roughing it: Women on the Frontier -- Wyoming territory and women's suffrage -- Civil Rights Act of 1875 -- Prejudice, racism, and the Ku Klux Klan -- End of Reconstruction: 1877 -- Cowboy -- Cattle drives -- Map for highways for the herds -- Broken treaties and reservations -- Outlaws -- Wild west in popular culture -- Lawmen -- Indian wars in the Northern plains -- Sitting Bull, Crazy Horse, and the Sioux -- Battle of the Little Bighorn -- Buffalo soldiers -- Frontier arts and letters -- Indian wars in the Southwest -- Geronimo and the Apache -- Ghost dance -- Last days of the Frontier: 1890 -- Glossary -- Bibliography -- American frontier web sites -- Index. |
Responsibility: | James M. McPherson. |
More information: |
Abstract:
With profiles of Jesse James and the Outlaws, reviews of the California Gold Rush, and the Battle of Little Bighorn, this informative guide takes an in-depth look at the people, places, and events that played a role in developing the Old West and American Frontier, complete with maps, period photos, and illustrations. --Publisher's description.
Read about the Old West and its people.
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