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Book

The American frontier

Call Number

  • *J 920 C (CEN)

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Edition

1st ed.

Publication Information

New York : Atheneum Books for Young Readers, c1997.

Physical Description

viii, 388 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Summary

A collective biography of great figures in the history of the American frontier.

Contents

  • Daniel Boone
  • James Bowie
  • Jim Bridger
  • Martha Jane Cannary (Calamity Jane)
  • Kit Carson
  • George Catlin
  • John Chapman (Johnny Appleseed)
  • William Clark
  • William Cody (Buffalo Bill)
  • Crazy Horse
  • Davy Crockett
  • George Armstrong Custer
  • John Deere
  • George Bird Grinnell
  • James J. Hill
  • Sam Houston
  • Meriwether Lewis
  • James McLaughlin
  • John Muir
  • Charlotte Darkey Parkhurst
  • Francis Parkman
  • John Wesley Powell
  • Frederic Remington
  • Sacagawea (Bird Woman)
  • Nancy Ward
  • Marcus and Narcissa Whitman.

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