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Title	Authors	Description	OpenBook ID
City girl	Lori Wick	City girl Reagan Sullivan may know her way around New York City, but nothing back East has prepared her for the land of armadillos and tall Texans. Chasing after adventure to blur an unhappy past, th…	OL111077W
Homes of the West (Life in the Old West)	Bobbie Kalman	Examines various types of dwellings in western Northern America during the nineteenth century, discussing their construction and design as well as the lives of the settlers who lived in them.	OL115137W
Our Western Border	Charles McKnight	“The author seems to have carefully sifted Doddridge, Withers, Pritts, DeHass, McClung and McDonald, and has connected chronologically, the more salient and memorable of the Combats, Massacres and Ca…	OL13153914W
Jim Bridger's alarm clock and other tall tales	Paul Fleischman,Sid Fleischman	Three tall tales about Jim Bridger and several of his unbelievable discoveries in the wilderness of the West.	OL14957904W
The best land under heaven	Michael Wallis	An account of the 1846 Donner-Reed expedition reveals the true events surrounding the tragedy, profiling the adventurous characters who shaped the group and how various interpersonal factors led to t…	OL17763828W
Mountain men	Andrew Santella	A description of the mountain men, nineteenth-century explorers and fur traders who helped open up the West to United States settlement.	OL18016093W
Star Boy	Paul Goble	Relates the Blackfoot Indian legend in which Star Boy gains the Sun's forgiveness for his mother's disobedience and is allowed to return to the Sky World.	OL1844236W
Black Indians	William Loren Katz	Traces the history of relations between blacks and American Indians, and the existence of black Indians, from the earliest foreign landings through pioneer days. via Worldcat.org	OL1880553W
Into the Wild	Jon Krakauer	In April 1992 a young man from a well-to-do family hitchhiked to Alaska and walked alone into the wilderness north of Mt. McKinley. His name was Christopher Johnson McCandless. He had given $25,000 i…	OL1974546W
Running line	United States. Bureau of Land Management	"For hundreds of years, cadastral surveyors have tramped across the country, braving the elements, to perform an important public service. They have had an exciting history, and they take great pride…	OL20063319W
Home on the range	Barbie Schwaeber,Diana Magnuson	When Dr. Brewster Higley first wrote his poem called "My western home" in 1872, he had no idea that it would grow to become "Home on the range", one of America's best-loved and most recognizable tune…	OL24160118W
GhostWest	Ann Ronald	"Our sense of place today is permeated by ghosts from the past. In GhostWest, Ann Ronald takes the reader to actual historical sites where something once happened. Using the metaphor of hauntings, sh…	OL3524310W
The Far Western frontier, 1830-1860	Ray Allen Billington	This history presents a pageant of westward exploration, military conquest, commercial penetration, exploitation and settlement. It also considers the various types of frontiersmen, fur trappers, mis…	OL3577028W
Cadillac desert	Marc Reisner	"Beautifully written and meticulously researched."—St. Louis Post-Dispatch. This updated study of the economics, politics, and ecology of water covers more than a century of public and private desert…	OL4037585W
A day in the life of a cowboy	Alvin G. Davis	Describes, in text and photographs, the activities and duties of a Texas cowboy on the first day of the spring roundup.	OL4448941W
Women of the West	A. I. Lake	Describes the work of the early women homesteaders and presents brief biographies of several women prominent in Western history, including Sacajawea, Annie Oakley, and Narcissa Whitman.	OL4794490W
Wild Bill Hickok	Larissa Phillips,Tracie Egan	Profiles the life and exploits of William Hickok, the legendary Western sharpshooter known as Wild Bill.	OL5754235W
The End and the Myth (Old West)	Time-Life Books,Paul O'Neill	Examines life in the American West as the frontier era ended and describes how the Old West was depicted in literature.	OL5909371W
In search of York	Robert B. Betts,James J. Holmberg	"The sole African American member of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, William Clark's enigmatic body servant York has inspired numerous myths about his character and exploits. He was supposed to be a …	OL5919960W
Narrative of the adventures of Zenas Leonard	Zenas Leonard	Zenas Leonard left his parents’ home in Pennsylvania in the early 1830’s to seek his fortune in the West. They did not hear from him for more than five years, and he was presumed dead. Then one day h…	OL6804038W