This book describes the Battle of Little Bighorn and the events that led up to it.

Profiles the life and career of Sam Houston-- as a military leader, president of the republic, U.S. senator, and governor. Houston is known as the Father of Texas, because under his command the Texan army defeated the Mexican army to gain control of this territory.

Describes the journey of the ill-fated Donner Party, ninety pioneers who became stranded in the Sierra Nevada mountains in the winter of 1846-47.

Discusses the details of the California gold rush, from the miner's daily lives to the methods they used to pan for gold.

Describes the expedition led by Lewis and Clark to explore the unknown western regions of America at the beginning of the nineteenth century.

Uses primary source documents, narrative, and illustrations to recount how the mid-nineteenth century California gold rush affected Americans and immigrants and how it shaped history.

Presents the history of Colorado from the time of its early dinosaur inhabitants, various Indian peoples, and European and American explorers and settlers to the declaration of its statehood in 1876.

It was November 1806. The explorers had gone without food for one day, then two. Their leader, not yet thirty, drove on, determined to ascend the great mountain. Waist deep in snow, he reluctantly turned back. But Zebulon Pike had not been defeated. His name remained on the unclimbed peak-and new adventures lay ahead of him and his republic. In Citizen Explorer, historian Jared Orsi provides the first modern biography of this soldier and explorer,...

Describes the numerous treaties between the various Native Americanpeoples and the settlers from Europe and explains how these new in-habitants used ways unfamiliar to the Indians to take their lands.