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Trouble River
The works listed will allow your students to further explore the theme
of The Pioneer Life and Spirit and other themes related to Trouble
River:
Fiction
Conrad, Pam. Prairie Songs. New York: Harper, 1985. Louisa Downing
and her family live in a sod house on the Nebraska prairie. They experience
and survive the hardships of frontier life. (average)
Lasky, Kathryn. The Bone Wars. New York: Morrow, 1988. The story
of two teenagers on the Western frontier, the book is fiction but includes
many historic figures, including George Custer, Crazy Horse, and 13-year-old
Black Elk. (average)
Leland, Dorothy K. Sallie Fox: The Story of a Pioneer Girl. Davis,
CA: Tomato Enterprises, 1995. The story of Sallie Fox, her family, and
the people of a wagon train who must endure the dangers and hardships
of the Santa Fe Trail. (average)
Turner, Ann. Grasshopper Summer. New York: Macmillan, 1989. Sam
and his family journey from Kentucky to the Dakota Territory to start
a new life on the frontier. (easy)
Nonfiction
Conrad, Pam. Prairie Visions: The Life and Times of Solomon Butcher.
New York: HarperCollins, 1994. A biography of Solomon Butcher, who
migrated to Nebraska in 1880 and built a sod house. He documented the
history of the county through photographs and by collecting anecdotes
and stories. The history rather than Butcher's own life is the focus
of the story. (average)
Greenberg, Judith E., and Helen Carey McKeever, eds. A Pioneer Woman's
Memoir. New York: Franklin Watts, 1995. This is a firsthand account
of a pioneer woman's experience crossing the continent by wagon train
in 1864 and settling in the West. It was carefully edited into a very
readable form and is illustrated with photographs and other historical
materials. (challenge)
Sandler, Martin W. Pioneers: A Library of Congress Book. New
York: HarperCollins, 1994. An overview of the settling of the West from
the early 1800s to 1890. It is richly illustrated with photographs,
engravings, and other materials from the Library of Congress collection.
(average)
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