Go West with cowboys and ranchers /
Cooke, Tim, 1961-
Go West with cowboys and ranchers / Tim Cooke. - 32 pages : illustrations (some color), color maps ; 28 cm - Go West! Travel to the wild frontier . - Go West! Travel to the wild frontier. .
Includes index.
What are the prospects? -- Meet the folks -- Roads most traveled -- Let's get going -- Out on the open range -- Working with the environment -- Making money -- Bed and board -- Life as a cowboy -- Change and conflict -- Dangerous work -- Native peoples -- End of the trail -- Glossary & timeline.
Describes the lives of cowboys and ranchers in the nineteenth-century American West, examining their origins, the dangers they faced, the cattle industry at the time, and the effect of westward expansion on Native Americans. --Publisher
Guided reading: T.
9780778723226 (reinforced library binding : alk. paper) 0778723224 (reinforced library binding : alk. paper) 9780778723356 (pbk. : alk. paper) 0778723356 (pbk. : alk. paper)
2015049843
20159079667
Cowboys--History--West (U.S.)--19th century--Juvenile literature.
Longhorn cattle--History--West (U.S.)--19th century--Juvenile literature.
Cattle drives--History--West (U.S.)--19th century--Juvenile literature.
Ranch life--West (U.S.)
West (U.S.)--History--1860-1890--Juvenile literature.
Illustrated works.
Go West with cowboys and ranchers / Tim Cooke. - 32 pages : illustrations (some color), color maps ; 28 cm - Go West! Travel to the wild frontier . - Go West! Travel to the wild frontier. .
Includes index.
What are the prospects? -- Meet the folks -- Roads most traveled -- Let's get going -- Out on the open range -- Working with the environment -- Making money -- Bed and board -- Life as a cowboy -- Change and conflict -- Dangerous work -- Native peoples -- End of the trail -- Glossary & timeline.
Describes the lives of cowboys and ranchers in the nineteenth-century American West, examining their origins, the dangers they faced, the cattle industry at the time, and the effect of westward expansion on Native Americans. --Publisher
Guided reading: T.
9780778723226 (reinforced library binding : alk. paper) 0778723224 (reinforced library binding : alk. paper) 9780778723356 (pbk. : alk. paper) 0778723356 (pbk. : alk. paper)
2015049843
20159079667
Cowboys--History--West (U.S.)--19th century--Juvenile literature.
Longhorn cattle--History--West (U.S.)--19th century--Juvenile literature.
Cattle drives--History--West (U.S.)--19th century--Juvenile literature.
Ranch life--West (U.S.)
West (U.S.)--History--1860-1890--Juvenile literature.
Illustrated works.