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Author:

Doherty, Kieran

Title:

Ranchers, homesteaders, and traders : frontiersmen of the South-Central states / Kieran Doherty.

Publisher:

Oliver Press,

Copyright Date:

c2001

Description:

176 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Pioneers--Southwest, Old--Juvenile literature.--Juvenile literature.
Frontier and pioneer life--Southwest, Old.--Juvenile literature.--Juvenile literature.
Pioneers.
Frontier and pioneer life--Southwest, Old.
Southwest, Old.--Juvenile literature.--Juvenile literature.
Southwest, Old--History.--Juvenile literature.--Juvenile literature.
Southwest, Old--History.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 167-168) and index.

Contents:

Henry de Tonty and the first settlement in Arkansas -- Auguste Chouteau and St. Louis, Missouri -- Daniel Boone and the Settlement of Kentucky -- John Sevier and the founding of Tennessee -- Stephen Austin and the colonization of Texas -- Sam Houston and the fight for Texas -- Eli Thayer and Bleeding Kansas.

Series:

Shaping America

ISBN:

9781881508533
1881508536

OCLC:

(OCoLC)45420286

LCCN:

00052864

Locations:

KSPG296 -- Burlington Public Library (Burlington)

SHPC094 -- Denver Public Library (Denver)