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  Dear America

  Across The Wide And Lonesome Prairie

  The Oregon Trail Diary Of Hattie Campbell

  by Kristiana Gregory

  Hattie, her parents, and her two younger brothers begin the long trek from Missouri to Oregon by wagon train. At first the adventure is exciting, but as the days, weeks, and months pass, Hattie realizes what a dangerous and tedious trip it will be. They cross the prairies, hastening the journey as news of the fate of the Donner party reaches them, but death, disease, weather, and the terrain take a terrible toll.... (more)
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  Dear America

  Land of the Buffalo Bones

  The Diary of Mary Ann Elizabeth Rodgers, an English Girl in Minnesota

  by Marion Dane Bauer

  Land of the Buffalo Bones is the diary of Mary Rodgers, known as Polly. Promising religious freedom and fertile land, Polly's father, Reverend Rodgers, moves their Baptist community from England to the Minnesota prairie. After a treacherous journey across
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  Wedding of the Waters: The Erie Canal and the Making of a Great Nation

  by Peter L. Bernstein

  "One corner of the great American panorama enlarged to highlight starry-eyed visionaries, political machinations, indefatigable ingenuity, and cockeyed optimism."— Kirkus Reviews A sweeping work of history by Peter L. Bernstein, Wedding of the Waters recounts the revolutionary conception, construction, and completion of the Erie Canal, one of the greatest engineering projects ever undertaken and the crucial... (more)
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  Dear America

  All the Stars in the Sky

  The Santa Fe Trail Diary of Florrie Mack Ryder

  by Megan McDonald

  Starting their journey from their home in Missouri, Florrie Ryder and her family are headed towards the promise of a new life in Santa Fe. As they cross the Great Plains of the midwestern prairie, fording rivers and climbing mountains, the Ryders encounter endless hardship as they undertake this great adventure.
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  Dear America

  My Face to the Wind

  The Diary of Sarah Jane Price, a Prairie Teacher

  by Jimmy Murphy

  In the late 1870s, many young teachers traveled West to earn money and make a new life for themselves, despite the schools being inadequate at best. Some returned home, unable to endure the hardships of prairie life, but others were more committed to their work. Sarah Jane Price stayed, braving the rough conditions of the West. Written by Newbery Honor Author Jim Murphy, this is Sarah Jane Price's story.
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  American Captivity Narratives: Selected Narratives With Introduction (New Riverside Editions)

  by Olaudah Equiano

  This volume collects a wide variety of works from a uniquely American literary tradition, the captivity narrative. Beginning with an excerpt from Hans Staden's The True History of His Captivity, which influenced the American captivity narrative, this volume presents accounts by early settlers held captive by Native Americans (Mary Rowlandson, John Smith), narratives by African American slaves (Olaudah Equiano,... (more)
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  American Foreign Relations

  by Thomas G. Paterson

  This best-selling text presents the best synthesis of current scholarship available to emphasize the theme of expansionism and its manifestations. The inclusion of recently declassified documents allows for new perspectives on American intervention in the Bolshevik Revolution, the origins of the Cold War and the Korean War, and the Cuban missile crisis. The Sixth Edition includes strong coverage of gender and... (more)
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  The Norton Anthology of American Literature, Sixth Edition, Volume D: Between the Wars 1914-1945

  The Norton Anthology of American Literature is the classic survey of American literature from its sixteenth-century origins to its flourishing present. This volume—Volume C—covers American literature from 1865 to 1914.
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  Laura's Ma: Adapted from the Little House Books by Laura Ingalls Wilder (Little House Chapter Book)

  by Laura Ingalls Wilder

  Laura's Ma Laura Ingalls knows her Ma can do anything! Ma can make butter from scratch and braid hats out of straw. Best of all, no matter where Laura's family settles on the frontier, Ma always makes their little house a home. The Laura Chapter Books are part of an ongoing series of Little House Chapter Books.
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  Hoofbeats: Katie and the Mustang Gift Set [BOX SET]

  by Kathleen Duey, S. Radhakrishnan

  Joined by Hiram the farmhand, Katie begins the journey west. At first, she is unsure if the Mustang will follow, but much to her relief, he seems to trust her. Soon, Katie and Hiram meet up with a large family who invite them to join their caravan. For the first time, it seems as though they might really make it to Oregon. But then tragedy strikes, and Katie finds herself having to choose between parting ways with... (more)
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  Hard Road West: History and Geology along the Gold Rush Trail

  by Keith Heyer Meldahl

  In 1848 news of the discovery of gold in California triggered an enormous wave of emigration toward the Pacific. Lured by the promise of riches, thousands of settlers left behind the forests, rain, and fertile soil of the eastern United States in favor of the rough-hewn lands of the American West. The dramatic terrain they struggled to cross is so familiar to us now that it is hard to imagine how frightening—even... (more)
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  The Last of the Mohicans

  by James Fenimore Cooper

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  Little House: Book 6

  The Long Winter

  by Laura Ingalls Wilder

  The adventures of Laura Ingalls and her family continue as Pa, Ma, Laura, Mary, Carrie, and little Grace bravely face the hard winter of 1880-81 in their little house in the Dakota Territory. Blizzards cover the little town with snow, cutting off all supplies from the outside. Soon there is almost no food left. so voting Almanzo Wilder and a friend make a dangerous trip across the prairie to find some wheat.... (more)
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  My Antonia

  by Willa Cather

  Willa Cather, winner of the Pulitzer Prize, considered My Ántonia to be one of her best works, and critic H.L. Mencken claimed it was one of the best American novels ever written. Published in 1918, the novel compassionately and intimately traces the story of a Bohemian family as they settle on the Great Plains in Nebraska. This American classic is still lauded internationally by scholars and everyday... (more)