
About this book
Uses letters, excerpts from journals and diaries, newspaper articles, and other primary source material to provide a look at life during the second half of the nineteenth century when many Americans moved westward.
Subjects
Description and travelSourcesFrontier and pioneer lifeTerritorial expansionPioneersDiscovery and explorationJuvenile literatureBiographyHistoryWest (u.s.), juvenile literatureWest (u.s.), history