United States Westward Expansion
Teaching Resources Center, Joyner Library
A Selective Bibliography
Titles in the Teaching Resources Center are cataloged with Dewey call numbers and are preceded by Curric. Please ask
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BIOGRAPHY
Calvert, Patricia. Kit Carson: He Led the Way. New York: Marshall Cavendish
Benchmark, 2007.
B
C2394C
Gregson, Susan R. James Beckwourth: Mountaineer, Scout, and Pioneer.
Minneapolis, MN: Compass Point Books, 2006.
B
B3897G
Hopkinson, Deborah. Home on the Range: John A. Lomax and His Cowboy Songs.
New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 2009.
B
L837H
Marrin, Albert. The Great Adventure: Theodore Roosevelt and the Rise of Modern
America. New York: Dutton Children's Books, 2007.
B
R67713MA
McKissack, Pat, Fredrick McKissack, Randy DuBurke, and Nat Love. Best Shot in the
West: The Adventures of Nat Love. San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 2012.
B
L9412M
North, Sterling. George Washington: Frontier Colonel. New York: Sterling Publishing
Company, 2006.
B
W277N
Pringle, Laurence P, Wright C. Van, and Ying-Hwa Hu. American Slave, American
Hero: York of the Lewis and Clark Expedition. Honesdale, PA: Calkins Creek
Books, 2006.
B
Y821P
Reich, Susanna. Painting the Wild Frontier: The Art and Adventures of George Catlin.
New York: Clarion Books, 2008.
B
C289R
Robinson, J. Dennis. Jesse James: Legendary Rebel and Outlaw. Minneapolis, MN:
Compass Point Books, 2007.
B
J234R
Summitt, April R. Sacagawea: A Biography. Westport, CN: Greenwood Press, 2008.
B
SA141S
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EASY
Blair, Eric. Johnny Appleseed: a Retelling of the Classic Tall Tale. Minneapolis,
Picture Window Books, 2005.
E
B575J
Blair, Eric. The Legend of Daniel Boone. Minneapolis, Picture Window Books, 2005.
E
B575L
Frisch, Aaron, and Chris Sheban. A Night on the Range. Mankato, MN: Creative
Editions, 2010.
E
F9172N
Yolen, Jane, and David Small. Elsie's Bird. New York: Philomel Books, 2010.
E
Y78EL
FICTION
Bjornson, Larry. Wide Open. New York: Berkley Books, 2012.
F
B558W
Boggs, Johnny D. Hard Winter: A Western Story. Detroit: Five Star, 2009.
F
B6341H
Gregory, Kristiana. Across the Wide and Lonesome Prairie: The Diary of Hattie
Campbell. New York: Scholastic Inc, 2012.
F
G8625A.A
Hemphill, Helen. The Adventurous Deeds of Deadwood Jones. Asheville, N.C: Front
Street, 2008.
F
H3775A
Houghton, Shane, and Chris Houghton. Reed Gunther. Berkeley, CA: Image Comics,
2011.
F
H8147R
Mitchell, Saundra. The Springsweet. Boston: Harcourt, 2012.
F
M6957S
Simar, Candace. Birdie. St. Cloud, MN: North Star Press of St. Cloud, 2011.
F
SI42B
Smith, Roland. The Captain's Dog: My Journey with the Lewis and Clark Tribe.
Orlando: Harcourt, 2008.
F
SM648C.A
Sneve, Virginia D. H, and Bill Farnsworth. Bad River Boys: A Meeting of the Lakota
Sioux with Lewis and Clark. New York: Holiday House, 2005.
F
SN28B
Wolf, Allan. New Found Land: A Novel. Cambridge, MA: Candlewick Press, 2004.
F
W831N
2
Wrede, Patricia C. Thirteenth Child. New York: Scholastic Press, 2009.
F
W925FM1
NONFICTION
Bard, Jessica. Lawmen and Outlaws: the Wild, Wild West. New York: Children’s
Press, 2005.
978.02
B235L
Bliss, John. Pioneers to the West. Chicago: Raintree, 2012.
978
B6195P
Burnett, Linda. Pioneers: Adventure in a New Land. New York: Children’s Press,
2005.
978
B9346P
Burrows, John. Lewis & Clark: Blazing a Trail West. New York: Sterling, 2008.
917.804
B9466L
Curlee, Lynn. Trains. New York: Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 2009.
385.09
C928T
De Capua, Sarah. The Wilderness Road. Minneapolis, MN: Compass Point Books,
2006.
973.2
D3554W
George, Jean C, and Wendell Minor. The Buffalo Are Back. New York: Dutton
Children's Books, 2010.
599.64
G2935B
Glaser, Jason. The Buffalo Soldiers and the American West. Mankato, MN: Capstone
Press, 2006.
978
G462B
Jones, Charlotte Foltz. Westward Ho!: Eleven Explorers of the West. New York:
Holiday House, 2005.
910
J7125W
Landau, Elaine. The Homestead Act. New York: Children’s Press, 2006.
978
L231H
Lassieur, Allison. Westward Expansion: An Interactive History Adventure. Mankato,
MN: Capstone Press, 2008.
978
L337W
Levy, Janey. Mapping America's Westward Expansion: Applying Geographic Tools
and Interpreting Maps. New York: Rosen Central, 2006.
973
L5796M
McCarthy, Pat. Heading West: Life with the Pioneers: 21 Activities. Chicago, IL:
Chicago Review Press, 2009.
978
M1276H
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McPherson, James M. Into the West: From Reconstruction to the Final Days of the
American Frontier. New York: Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 2006.
978
M2423I
Olson, Tod, Scott Allred, Gregory Proch, and Marc Aronson. How to Get Rich on the
Oregon Trail: My Adventures Among Cows, Crooks & Heroes on the Road to
Fame and Fortune: Writing Journal Of-Master William Reed : Portland,
Oregon 1852. Washington, D.C: National Geographic, 2009.
978
OL88H
Raum, Elizabeth. The California Gold Rush: An Interactive History Adventure.
Mankato, MN: Capstone Press, 2008.
979.4
R192C
Schuh, Mari C. Look Inside a Log Cabin. Mankato, MN: Capstone Press, 2009.
728.7
SCH79L
Sheinkin, Steve. Which Way to the Wild West? Everything Your Schoolbooks didn't
Tell You about America's Westward Expansion. New York: Roaring Brook
Press, 2009.
978.02
SH42W
Somervill, Barbara A. The Gold Rush: Buried Treasure. New York: Children’s Press,
2005.
979.4
SO545G
Stefoff, Rebecca. Surviving the Oregon Trail. Berkeley Heights, NJ: Enslow Publishers,
2012.
917.804
ST328S
Tieck, Sarah. Oregon Trail. Edina, MN: ABDO Pub. Co., 2008.
978
T44O
Winter, Jonah, and Susan Guevara. Wild Women of the Wild West. New York: Holiday
House, 2011.
920.720978
W7345W
PROFESSIONAL COLLECTION
Gravois, Michael. Pioneers. New York: Scholastic Teaching Resources, 2004.
Prof
978
G789P
Herbert, Janis. Lewis and Clark for Kids: Their Journey of Discovery with 21 Activities.
Chicago: Chicago Review Press, 2000.
Prof
917.804
H4155L
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