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This book introduces children to the traditional dwellings built and used by Native nations across North America.

With few roads and bridges, travel was slow, difficult, and often dangerous. The early settlers had to find creative ways of getting around. This attractive book describes the hazards people faced while traveling long ago: -- in the city and in the wilderness-- on water and during the winter-- in wagons and coaches and later in steamboats, trains, and early automobiles.

Describes the development of the railroad in North America and its influence on the settling of the West during the nineteenth century.

This book introduces the life and times of the Native Americans describing homes, tools, clothes, and travel of different tribes.

Describes the lure of gold that drew both men and women west and discusses how they lived, the difficulties they faced, the impact of the gold rush on Native Americans, and more.

This book introduces children to the customs, languages, and traditional ways of life of several Native nations that lived on the Great Plains of North America.

Describes the lives and experiences of women in the nineteenth-century American west, including immigrants, African Americans, and Native Americans.