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Into the West : from Reconstruction to the final days of the American frontier / James M. McPherson.
Read about the Old West and its people.
Record details
- ISBN: 0689865430
- ISBN: 9780689865435
- ISBN: 1416928227
- ISBN: 9781416928225
- Physical Description: 96 pages : illustrations (some color), color map ; 27 cm
- Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: New York : Atheneum Books for Young Readers, [2006]
- Copyright: ©2006
Content descriptions
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 92) and index. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | 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. |
| Target Audience Note: | 1190L Lexile |
| Study Program Information Note: | Accelerated Reader MG 9.6 4 4 110720 |
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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| Juniata County Library | J 978 MCP (Text) | 39640100168952 | JUNM Juvenile Non-Fiction | Available | - |
