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For younger readers

Blackwood, Gary L. Life on the Oregon Trail. Lucent, 1999. For readers in grades 5 to 8.

Calabro, Marian. The Perilous Journey of the Donner Party. Clarion, 1999. For readers in grades 6 and up.

Duncan, Dayton. People of the West. Little, Brown, 1996. For readers in grades 5 to 8.

Emsden, Katharine. Voices from the West: Life Along the Trail. Discovery Enterprises, 1993. For readers in grades 4 to 8.

Gold, Susan D. Land Pacts. Twenty-First Century, 1997. For readers in grades 5 to 8.

Ketchum, Liza. Into a New Country: Eight Remarkable Women of the West. Little Brown, 2000. For readers in grades 6 to 12.

Reef, Catherine. Buffalo Soldiers. Twenty-First Century, 1993. For readers in grades 4 to 6.

Sanford, William R. The Santa Fe Trail in American History. Enslow, 2000. For middle school and high school readers.

Uschan, Michael V. Westward Expansion. Lucent, 2000. For readers in grades 7 to 10.

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Billington, Ray Allen, and Martin Ridge. Westward Expansion: A History of the American Frontier. Macmillan, 2001. Classic study supporting Frederick Jackson Turner's traditional view that westward expansion shaped the character of American society.

Lamar, Howard R., ed. The New Encyclopedia of the American West. Yale University Press, 1998. Excellent coverage of the history, personalities, and mythology of America's West.

Nobles, Gregory H. American Frontiers: Cultural Encounters and Continental Conquest. Hill & Wang, 1997. Important study of intercultural collision between whites and natives shows that natives were not the “savages” that films and popular histories portray.

Uschan, Michael V. Westward Expansion Gale, 2000. Provides an overview to key events in America's westward expansion. For high school readers.

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