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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.5 - AR Pts: 22
Language
English
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Description
The Oregon Trail is the gripping account of Francis Parkman's journey west across North America in 1846. After crossing the Allegheny Mountains by coach and continuing by boat and wagon to Westport, Missouri, he set out with three companions on a horseback journey that would ultimately take him over two thousand miles. Map.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.9 - AR Pts: 27
Language
English
Description
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee is Dee Brown's eloquent, fully documented account of the systematic destruction of the American Indian during the second half of the nineteenth century. A national bestseller in hardcover for more than a year after its initial publication, it has sold almost four million copies and has been translated into seventeen languages. For this elegant thirtieth anniversary hardcover edition, Brown has contributed an incisive...
3) Grayfox
Author
Publisher
Bethany House Publishers
Pub. Date
�1993
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
After a fight with his father, Zach Hollister leaves home and joins the Pony Express. He is chased by a war party of Indians and then saved by a peaceful tribe. During his stay with the tribe he discovers the meaning of manhood and the importance of family through his faith in God.
Author
Series
First North Americans volume 5
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 28
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Distributed by Random House
Pub. Date
2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.7 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
Exploring Lewis and Clark probes beneath the traditional narrative of the journey, looking beyond the perspectives of the explorers themselves to those of the women and the men who accompanied them, as well as of the Indians who met them along the way. It reexamines the journals and what they suggest about Lewis's and Clark's misinterpretations of the worlds they passed through and the people in them. The author portrays Lewis and Clark not as heroes,...
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