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  • Why Cows Need Cowboys

    and Other Seldom-Told Tales from the American West

    by Nancy Plain, Larry Bjornson, Matthew P. Mayo, Jean A. Lukesh, Bill Groneman, Easy Jackson, Chris Enss, Candy Moulton, Candace Simar0, S. J. Dahlstrom1, Nancy Oswald2, Vonn McKee3, Bill Markley4, Ginger Wadsworth5, Johnny D. Boggs, six-time Spur Award winne6, Rod Miller7, Joseph Bruchac8, Sherry Monahan9, Quackgrass Sally0 ...
    **2022 Will Rogers Medallion Award Gold Winner for Western Non-Fiction - Young Readers**Welcome to Western Writers of America’s first anthology for young readers. In this collection of true tales of the West, we leave textbook history in the rearview mirror and take you on a tour of twenty seldom-told dramas, the kind you might stumble across only if you leave the main road to wander the detours ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

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  • The Worst Hard Time

    The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl

    by Timothy Egan ...
    In a tour de force of historical reportage, Timothy Egan’s National Book Award–winning story of the Dust Bowl rescues an iconic chapter of American history from the shadows.The dust storms that terrorized America’s High Plains during the Great Depression were like nothing ever seen before or since. Following a dozen families and their communities through the rise and fall of the region, Timothy ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

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  • My Arizona Adventures

    The Recollections of Thomas Dudley Sanders: Miner, Freighter and Rancher in Arizona Territory

    by Al Bates ...
    My Arizona Adventures is the true first-person account of an authentic American pioneer. When Tom Sanders came to Arizonas central highlands there was nothing there; there were no roads, no towns, no law, and no protection from marauding Indians. There was nothing there but opportunities for the strong, resolute and lucky.The year was 1863, Arizona had just become a separate Territory and its vast ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • The American West

    by Dee Brown ...
    Renowned storyteller Dee Brown, author of the bestselling Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee, recreates the struggles of Native Americans, settlers, and ranchers in this stunning volume that illuminates the history of the old West that’s filled with maps and vintage photographs.Beginning with the demise of the Native Americans of the Plains, Brown depicts the onrush of the burgeoning cattle trade and ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • What Was the Gold Rush?

    by Joan Holub, Who HQ ...
    Illustrated by Tim Tomkinson ...
    Series series What Was?
    Hear the stories about the gold-seeking "forty-niners!" in this addition to the #1 New York Times bestselling series.In 1848, gold was discovered in California, attracting over 300,000 people from all over the world, some who struck it rich and many more who didn't. With black-and white illustrations and sixteen pages of photos, a nugget from history is brought to life! ... Read more

    Was $7.99 USD Now $3.99 USD

  • What Was the Wild West?

    by Janet B. Pascal, Who HQ ...
    Illustrated by Stephen Marchesi ...
    Series series What Was?
    Saddle up and get ready for a ride back into the wild and wooly past of the American West.The west was at its wildest from 1865 to 1895, when territories west of the Mississippi River remained untamed and lawless. Famous for cowboys, American Indians, lawmen, gunslingers, pioneers, and prospectors, this period in US history captures the imagination of all kids and now is brought vividly to life. ... Read more

    Was $7.99 USD Now $4.99 USD

  • Women of the Frontier

    16 Tales of Trailblazing Homesteaders, Entrepreneurs, and Rabble-Rousers

    by Brandon Marie Miller ...
    Series Book 3 - Women of Action
    An Notable Social Studies Trade Book for Young PeopleUsing journal entries, letters home, and song lyrics, the women of the West speak for themselves in these tales of courage, enduring spirit, and adventure. Women such as Amelia Stewart Knight traveling on the Oregon Trail, homesteader Miriam Colt, entrepreneur Clara Brown, army wife Frances Grummond, actress Adah Isaacs Menken, naturalist Martha ... Read more

    $14.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Pioneers

    by Rick Steber ...
    Series series Tales of the Wild West
    Mountain men and fur traders were the first to travel the route that would one day become the Oregon Trail. In their wake came missionaries who wrote letters and reports describing the far side of the continent and praising the mild climate, healthful conditions and the deep, fertile soil.Historians recognize 1843 as the official beginning of the Oregon Trail.That spring a group of a thousand land ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Blood Memory

    The Tragic Decline and Improbable Resurrection of the American Buffalo

    by Ken Burns, Dayton Duncan ...
    The epic story of the buffalo in America, from prehistoric times to today—a moving and beautifully illustrated work of natural history inspired by the PBS series "American Buffalo"The American buffalo—our nation’s official mammal—is an improbable, shaggy beast that has found itself at the center of many of our most mythic and sometimes heartbreaking tales. The largest land animals in the Western ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Which Way to the Wild West?

    Everything Your Schoolbooks Didn't Tell You About America's Westward Expansion

    by Steve Sheinkin ...
    Illustrated by Tim Robinson ...
    New York Times bestselling author and Newbery Honor recipient Steve Sheinkin welcomes young readers to the thrilling, tragic, and downright wild historic adventure of America’s westward expansion in Which Way to the Wild West? Everything Your Schoolbooks Didn’t Tell You About America’s Westward Expansion, featuring illustrations by Tim Robinson.1805: Explorer William Clark reaches the Pacific ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

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  • The Bears Ears

    A Human History of America's Most Endangered Wilderness

    by David Roberts ...
    A personal and historical exploration of the Bears Ears country and the fight to save a national monument.The Bears Ears National Monument in southeastern Utah, created by President Obama in 2016 and eviscerated by the Trump administration in 2017, contains more archaeological sites than any other region in the United States. It’s also a spectacularly beautiful landscape, a mosaic of sandstone ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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  • An Ordinary Woman

    A Dramatized Biography of Nancy Kelsey

    by Cecelia Holland ...
    The remarkable story of the courageous young pioneer who endures the hardships of the wilderness to become the first American woman to enter CaliforniaA hard life in the Missouri wilderness has made young Nancy Roberts Kelsey strong, fearless, and ready for anything. In the year 1841, the seventeen-year-old wife and mother joins her husband, Ben, and with an infant in her arms, sets off in pursuit ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus