Go West with merchants and traders / Cynthia O'Brien.
Material type: TextSeries: Go West! Travel to the wild frontierPublisher: Ontario ; New York : Crabtree Publishing, [2016]Description: 32 pages : illustrations (some color), color maps; 28 cmContent type:- text
- still image
- unmediated
- volume
- 9780778723264
- 0778723267
- 9780778723387
- 0778723380
Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Materials specified | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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Children's Book | Main Library | Children's NonFiction | 978.02 O13 | Available | 33111008723534 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
Go west to see how people in the towns lived, selling goods to the settlers, miners, and prospectors. Some became hugely successful, such as Levi Strauss, who began selling overalls and tents to prospectors in the California gold rush. Others scraped out a living by selling essential goods in the local general store, or by running stables, saloons, hotels, or newspapers.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
What are the prospects? -- Meet the folks -- Where in the West? -- Let's get going -- The natural setting -- Working with the environment -- Making money -- Friends and neighbors -- Hot off the telegraph -- Bed and board -- Risks and robbers -- Take it easy -- Legacy of the West -- Glossary & timeline.
Describes the experiences of people who helped to settle the American West by selling goods and services to settlers, prospectors, and miners, noting key events and places along the way.
Guided reading: S.