Open Court

Grade 5

Going West

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Freedman, Russell. Children of the Wild West. New York :

Clarion Books, c1983. Historical photographs with

explanatory text present a picture of life in the American

West from 1840 to the early 1900s.

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Freedman, Russell. Buffalo hunt. 1st ed. New York : Holiday

House, c1988. Examines the importance of the buffalo in the

lore and day-to-day life of the Indian tribes of the Great

Plains and describes hunting methods and the uses found for

each part of the animal that could not be eaten.

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Krensky, Stephen. Striking it rich : the story of the California

gold rush. 1st Aladdin Paperbacks ed. New York : Aladdin

Paperbacks, 1996. Describes the discovery of gold in

California and its impact on the development of California

and the West.

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Pinkney, Andrea Davis. Bill Pickett, rodeo-ridin' cowboy. 1st

ed. San Diego : Harcourt Brace & Co., c1996. Describes the

life and accomplishments of the son of a former slave whose

unusual bulldogging style made him a rodeo star.

B Sac

Skold, Betty W. Sacagawea.

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Fleischman, Sid, 1920-. By the great horn spoon! Boston :

Little Brown, c1963. A gentleman's gentleman from Boston

flees to the wilds of California during the Gold Rush and

becomes a hero.

F Yep

Yep, Laurence. The journal of Wong Ming-Chung : a Chinese miner.

1st ed. New York : Scholastic, 2000. A young Chinese boy

nicknamed Runt records his experiences in a journal as he

travels from southern China to California in 1852 to join

his uncle during the Gold Rush.

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Rawls, James J. Dame Shirley and the Gold Rush. Austin, Tex. :

Raintree Steck-Vaughn, c1993. Relates how a series of

letters, written by a woman known as Dame Shirley and

published in a San Francisco magazine in 1854 and 1855, were

instrumental in inciting the California gold rush.

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Brink, Carol Ryrie, 1895-. Caddie Woodlawn. Collier ed. New

York : Macmillan, 1970, c1962. The adventures of an

eleven-year-old tomboy growing up on the Wisconsin frontier

in the mid-nineteenth century.