| Publication |
USA, Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 2006.
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| Description |
96pBrown Spine
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| Summary/Abstract |
Contains personal narratives from settlers and soldiers as well as profiles and accounts of the actions of many historical luminaries involved in Reconstruction and the movement west.
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| Contents |
Introduction
The Civil War
Reconstruction Begins: 1863-1864
The Homestead Act
The American Frontier: 1865
The First Settlers: The Native Americans
Assassination of President Abraham Lincoln
Andrew Johnson and Presidential Reconstruction
"Contrabands" and Freedmen
Carpetbaggers and Scalawags
The Transcontinental Railroad
The Civil War Amendments
Land and Social Reform in the South
Sodbusters and Barbed Wire
Congressional Reconstruction
The Impeachment of Andrew Johnson
President Ulysses S.Grant
Corruption, Scandal, and the Civil Service
The Immigrants
Roughing It: Women on the Frontier
Wyoming Territory and Women's Suffrage
The Civil Rights Act of 1875
Prejudice, Racism, and the Ku Klux Klan
The End of Reconstruction: 1877
The Cowboy
The Cattle Drives
Map for Highways for the Herds
Broken Treaties and Reservations
The Outlaws
The Wild West in Popular Culture
The Lawmen
The Indian Wars in the Northern Plains
Sitting Bull, Crazy Horse, and the Sioux
The Battle of the Little Bighorn
The Buffalo Soldiers
Frontier Arts and Letters
Indian Wars in the Southwest
Geronimo and the Apache
The Ghost Dance
The Last Days of the Frontier: 1890
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| Standard Number |
0689865430 Hb.
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