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Eat Our Dust!

This unit is so huge that we broke it into smaller units.  General information for all of the units can be found on this page but more specific information can be found on the following units:

Cowboys Oregon Trail Mormon Trail Santa Fe Trail Land Rush Railroads The Gold Rush Indian Wars Olsen Movement

Please note that the "OIsen Movement" will probably not be of much interest to you since you probably do not belong to our family.  Our family was involved in the western movement and so we spent a few weeks studying our family's involvement in settling, taming and developing part of the Wild, Wild West.

Please see the General History  and Explorers page for more books and links.

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Resources

Books

Non-Fiction--Information books:

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A Covered Wagon Girl (Blue Earth, 2000; ISBN 0736803440)

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A Pioneer Farm Girl (Capstone, 2000; ISBN 0736803475)

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America's Manifest Destiny by Lesli J. Favor, Ph.D. (Rosen, 2005; ISBN 1404202013)

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Battle  by Richard Holmes (Eyewitness-Alfred A. Knopf, 1995; ISBN 0679573333)*

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Boomtowns  by Robert W. Shapley, illustrated by Luciano Lazzarino (Rourke, 1990; ISBN086625370X)

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Buffalo Gals; Women of the Old West by Brandon Marie Miller (Lerner, 1995; ISBN 0822517302)

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Cattle Ranchers by Harriet Upton (Rourke, 1990; ISBN 0866253726)

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Children of the Westward Trail by Rebecca Stefoff (The Millbrook Press, 1996; ISBN 1562945823)

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Children of the Wild West by Russell Freedman (Clarion Books, 1983; ISBN 0899191436)

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Daily Life in a Covered Wagon by Paul Erickson (Puffin books, 1994: ISBN 0140562125)*

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Deseret's Pioneer Histories (Archive Publishers; ISBN 1930679432)*

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Famous Wagon Trails by Christy Steel (World Almanac Library, 2005; ISBN 0836857887)

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Frontier Schools and Schoolteachers by Ryan P. Randolph (Rosen, 2003; ISBN 0823962954)

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Frontier Women who Helped Shape the American West by Ryan P. Randolph(Rosen, 2003; ISBN 0823962970)

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Frontiersmen by Gail Stewart (Rourke, 1990; ISBN 0866254064)

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Growth in America: 1865-1914 by Rebecca Stefoff (Benchmark Book, 2003; ISBN 0761413499)

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How Would You Survive In the American West? by Jacqueline Morley illustrated by David Antram (Franklin Watts, 1995; ISBN 0531153088)*

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If You Traveled West in a Covered Wagon by Ellen Levine illustrated by Elroy Freem*

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In the American West? by Jacqueline Morley (Orchard)

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Laura Ingalls Wilder by Alexandra Wallner*

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Life on the American Frontier by Stuart A. Kallen (Lucent, 1999; ISBN 1560063661)

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Lumbermen by Gail Stewart (Rourke, 1990; ISBN 0866254072)

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Nineteenth-Century Lumber Camp Cooking by Maureen M. Fisher (Capstone, 2001; ISBN0736806040)

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Outrageous Women of the American Frontier by Mary Todd Furbee (John Wiley, 2002; ISBN 0471383007)

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Pioneer Farm Cooking by Mary Gunderson (Capstone, 2000; ISBN 0736803564)

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Pioneer Life in the American West by Christy Steele (World Almanac Library, 2005; ISBN 0836857909)

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Pioneers a unit study by Amanda Bennett*

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Pioneers by Linda Burnett (Scholastic, 2005; ISBN 0516251279)

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Pioneers by Martin W. Sandler (Harper Collins, 1994; ISBN 0060230231)

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Pioneers of the American West by Sherri Peel Taylor (Lucent, 2002; ISBN 1560068868)

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Pioneers of the Frontier by Charles W. Sundling (ABDO, 2000; ISBN 1577650476)

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Sarah Plain and Tall by Patricia MacLachlan*

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The Opening of the West by Rebecca Stefoff (Benchmark, 2003; ISBN 0761412018)

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The Pioneers (Time-Life, 1974; ISBN 7394242)

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The Pioneers Go West  by George R. Stewart (Random House, 1982; ISBN 0394891805)

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The Ranchers (Time-Life Books, 1977)

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The Wild West by Gina DeAngelis (Chelsea, 1999; ISBN 0791051692)

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The Wild West by Rebecca Stefoff (Benchmark, 2007; ISBN 076142170X)

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The Wild West by Tim Wood (Viking, 1996; ISBN 0670875287)

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West by Covered Wagon by Dorothy Hinshaw Patent, photographs by William Munoz (Walker & Co., 1995; ISBN 0802783783)

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Westward Expansion by Dale Anderson (Raintree, 2001; ISBN 0817257055)

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Westward Expansion by Cathryn J. Long (Kidhaven, 2003; ISBN 0737713836)

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Westward Expansion by Michael V Uschan (Lucent, 2001; ISBN 1560066903)

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Westward Ho! The story of the pioneers  by Lucille Recht Penner, illustrated by Bryn Barnard (Random, 1997; ISBN 0679947760)

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Why the West was Wild by Wayne Swanson (Annick, 2004; ISBN1550378368)

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Women of the American Frontier by Stuart A. Kallen (Lucent, 2004; ISBN 1590184718)

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Women of the Frontier by Charles W. Sundling (ABDO, 2000; ISBN 1577650468)

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You Wouldn't Want to be an American Pioneer! by Jacqueline Morley, illustrated David Antram (Franklin Watts, 2003; ISBN 0531146081)

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You Wouldn't Want to Live in a Wild West Town by Peter Hicks, illustrated David Antram (Franklin Watts, 2002; ISBN 0531146065)

Activity Books:

bulletHands-On Pioneers, Art activates for all Ages by Yvonne Young Merrill with Emily Young Merrill (Desert Book, 1995; ISBN 1573450855)*
bulletPioneer Days by David C. King (John Wiley & Sons, 1997: ISBN 0471161691)*
bulletThe Play-It Book; Days of Games for Children by Jean Hosford Fretwell (Archive Publisher, 2003)*
bulletWestward Ho! by Laurie Carlson (Chicago Review Press,1996 ISBN 1556522711)*
bulletWild West Days by David C. King (John Wiley & Sons, 1998; ISBN 0471239194)*

Fiction:

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Audio/visual:

bulletThe Real West (1961) starring Gary Cooper
bulletThe West (1996) six part series by Ken Burns
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Websites

++++Caution, nothing has been reviewed or used, just gathered and held here for future use++++

bulletNorthern Prairie Wildlife Science Center
bullet Stuhr Museum of the Prairie Pioneer
bullet Oregon Wagon Train (real life experience)
bullet The Oregon Trail or The Oregon Trail
bullet Chesapeake & Ohio Canal
bullet The Appalachian Trail (links from this page)
bullet Other National Scenic Trails
bullet Native American from Legends of America  (also see Native American on our web page)
bulletWestward Expansion Unit
bulletCanyonlands National Park National Park service
bullet Grand Canyon
bulletLaura Ingalls Wilder; Frontier Girl
bullet Ingalls Homestead
bulletEnd of the Oregon Trail
bulletBuffalo Bill Historical Center
bulletAmerican West
bulletAmerican Old West from Wikipedia
bulletWestern Expansion from edtech (lots of links)
bulletGail Shea Grainger's links
bulletSocial Study for kids
bulletList of links
bulletKid info
bulletTracks; Impressions of America (lessons)
bullet Education world sites
bullet American West from History on the net.com
bulletMap of trails from Adventure Tales and sample maps
bulletPower point presentations from pppst
bulletWestern Pioneers, Frontiersmen, Mountain men and fur traders from American West
bulletWomen of the West from Over-land
bulletTrails to the West from eduplace
bulletMap of the US in 1860 from eduplace
bullet Western America from spartacus.schoolnet

Lesson Plans:

bullet Western Expansion from Jeffco Multicultural Lesson Plans


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