Which Way to the Wild West?: Everything Your Schoolbooks Didn't Tell You About Westward Expansion
2009·272 pages
Engaging young-reader history of U.S. westward expansion, from the Louisiana Purchase through the gold rush, cowboys, and Indian wars to Wounded Knee.
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Engaging young-reader history of U.S. westward expansion, from the Louisiana Purchase through the gold rush, cowboys, and Indian wars to Wounded Knee.
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History--with the good bits put back. Discover the drama, discoveries, dirty deeds and derring-do that won the American West. With a storyteller's voice and attention to the details that make history real and interesting, Steve Sheinkin's Which Way to the Wild West? delivers America's greatest adventure. From the Louisiana Purchase (remember: if you're negotiating a treaty for your country, play it cool.) to the gold rush (there were only three ways to get to California--all of them bad) to the ...
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will contain mild spoilers
Sexual content
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No romantic or sexual content present
Violence & gore
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Indian wars and massacres including Wounded Knee; battles without graphic gore
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No fantasy magic or witchcraft present
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Themes of Manifest Destiny and treatment of Native peoples
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Systemic injustices against Native Americans; frontier hardships
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