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  • Settlers on a Strange Shore

    Edith S. McCall, Carol Rogers

    Library Binding (Childrens Press, Oct. 1, 1980)
    The story of some of the first people to settle on American shores, including those of the New England and Jamestown settlements
    R

  • Grizzly Adams

    Harry Clebourne James

    Unknown Binding (Childrens Press, March 15, 1963)
    hardbound

  • Gold Rush Adventures

    Edith McCall, Frances Eckart

    Hardcover (Childrens Press, March 15, 1962)
    Gold Rush Adventures

  • Steamboats to the West

    Edith S. McCall, Robert Borja

    Library Binding (Childrens Pr, Oct. 1, 1980)
    Presents the story of the settlers who traveled West by steamboat during our great era of westward migration
    T

  • Over the Mormon trail

    Helen Hinckley Jones

    Hardcover (Childrens Press, March 15, 1963)
    None

  • Hunters Blaze the Trails

    Edith S. McCall

    Library Binding (Childrens Pr, Sept. 1, 1980)
    Profiles some of the early American hunters who were the first men to go west and who blazed the trails that would later be followed by pioneers
    O

  • Steamboats to the West

    Edith S McCall

    Hardcover (Childrens Press, March 15, 1959)
    Steamboats to America is a volume in the Frontiers of America series, a set of books dedicated to providing informative, historical introductory books for children. This particular book focuses on the invention and progress of the steamboats in the early eighteen hundreds. It begins by relating the hardships of keelboat navigation as experienced by Captains Lewis and Clark, and outlines several other adventures along the journey of the newly invented steamboat, culminating with the reasons for why railroads replaced steamboats as the main tool of expansion. Each chapter focuses on a particular character - explorer, inventor, passenger, you name it - and their experiences while on board a steamboat. Thus, the history is related in an engaging fictional format. The prose is not rich - indeed, it is quite simple - but is very clean.

  • Stalwart Men of Early Texas

    Edith S. McCall, Lou Aronson

    Library Binding (Childrens Press, Sept. 1, 1980)
    Brief biographies of six men who explored and founded settlements in early Texas. Included are Cabeza de Vaca, Robert La Salle, and Moses Austin.
    X

  • Forts in the Wilderness

    Edith S. McCall

    Library Binding (Childrens Pr, July 1, 1980)
    Describes what life was like in an old wilderness fort as the soldiers protected the civilians from Indian attacks
    T

  • Pioneers on Early Waterways

    Edith McCall, Carol Rogers

    Library Binding (Childrens Press, Sept. 1, 1980)
    Recounts the daring adventures and hardships of the rugged men who first travelled the inland water routes of North America
    O

  • Cumberland Gap and Trails West

    Edith S. McCall

    Library Binding (Childrens Pr, July 1, 1980)
    Relates the adventures of six men including George Washington and Daniel Boone, whose explorations of the Appalachian Mountain area during the 17th and 18th centuries opened up the way west.
    S

  • Pioneers On Early Waterways

    Edith McCall

    Hardcover (Childrens Press, March 15, 1963)
    These are true stories of real people. Davey Crockett going down the Ohio on a flatboat has a fight with a "ring-tailed roarer." Mike Fink gets six sheep for his keelboat crew by outwitting a farmer. Jim Garfield falls off his canal boat about a week before a fight leads him to think he should go on to better things. wilderness waterways drama Sam Clemens pilots a Mississippi steamer and the pilot of the Robert E. Lee outwits the pilot of the Natchez to win a historic race.