Westward Expansion Multi-Media Text Set

This is an incomplete list of highly recommended resources related to Westward Expansion. We envision that you will use this list as a resource to add to the collection of materials you already have at your fingertips. We included websites as one kind of resource as they are free and easily accessible. Short texts are another kind of resource we’ve included. You can find some of these short texts available for download on The Treasure Chest.

Websites: Websites Website Description

http://postalmuseum.si.edu/letterwriting/ National Postal Museum: Letter Writing in lw03.html America During Westward Expansion

http://www.history.com/topics/trail-of-tears Videos, photo galleries, interactive

http://www.america101.us/trail/ Comprehensive information about the Oregontrail.html Oregon Trail (historic sites, fantastic facts, archive)

http://www.nationalgeographic.com/features/ Interactive website that follows Louis and 97/west/ Clark's journey

Short Texts: Title Author Source Level/Other

(assorted) http://www.pbs.org/weta/thewest/ A selection of the memoirs, resources/archives/index.htm journals, letters, reports and images

(assorted) http://www.pbs.org/lewisandclark/ Resource to adapt articles for students

(assorted) http://www.pbs.org/weta/thewest/ A selection of maps and places/states/index.htm photographs of US western states at the time of the Westward Expansion

(assorted) http://www.pbs.org/weta/thewest/ An interactive biographical people/ dictionary that provides concise profiles of people important in Westward Expansion

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The Wild http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/ Premiering January 10. West americanexperience/collections/ The Wild West collection wild-west/ features documentaries about some of the most controversial and mythic figures in American western history.

From Billy the Kid to Wyatt Earp, from Custers Last Stand to Geronimo's fight against the U.S. government, learn the real stories behind some of America's greatest western tales

(various Cobbl Issue on Orphan Trains Contains different articles all articles) estone on topic Magazine

“Go West, Marcia Cobblestone - Click! Photos That Young Amidon Made History issue, p. 9 Photographe Lusted rs!”

Pioneers Kids Kids Discover Discover

Frontier Richard Schools Uhlich

Women of Lisa the West Yount

Gold Kids Kids Discover Discover

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Poetry: Title Author Source

Only Opal: The Diary of Jane Boulton a Young Girl

(assorted poems) Jeannine Atkins Borrowed Names: Poems About Laura Ingalls Wilder, Madam C.J. Walker, Marie Curie, and Their Daughters

(assorted poems) anthology compiled by Lee Hand in Hand Bennett Hopkins

Western Wagons Rosemary and Stephen Vincent Benet

Twelve Hundred More!

Drama (Songs, plays, etc.): Title Type (Song, play, etc.) Source

(assorted titles) plays 10 American History Plays for the Classroom by Sarah J. Glasscock

(assorted titles) plays Famous Americans: 22 Short Plays for the Classroom, Grades 4-8: Ben Franklin, Lewis & Clark, Abraham Lincoln, Susan B. Anthony, Harriet Tubman, John Muir, Cesar Chavez, Franklin Delano Roosevelt . . . [Deluxe Edition] by Sarah Glasscock, et. al.

Narcissa Whitman play Building Fluency Through Reader's and the Westward Theater Movement: Expanding and Preserving the Union by Catherine M. Shannon

Lewis and Clark: play Building Fluency Through Reader's Expanding and Theater

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Preserving the Union by Kathleen E. Bradley

“Oh, Susanna” by song Stephen Foster

Expository Nonfiction: Title Author Level

Daily Life in a Covered Wagon Paul Erickson (YA)

If You Traveled West in a Covered Wagon Ellen Levine

Children of the Wild West Russell Freedman X

Cowboys of the Wild West Russell Freedman X

Narrative Nonfiction: Title Author Level

The Devil’s Paintbox Victoria McKernan

Women’s Diaries of the Westward Journey Lillian Schlissel (YA)

Covered Wagon Women, Volume 1: Diaries and Kenneth L. Holmes (YA) Letters from the Western Trails, 1840-1849

Black Elk’s Vision: A Lakota Story S.D. Nelson

Hybrid Nonfiction: Title Author Level

Legendary Journeys: Trains Philip Steele

Lewis and Clark (Watts Library: Exploration) Andrew Santella S

York's Adventures with Lewis and Clark: An Rhoda Blumberg Y African-American's Part in the Great Expedition

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(Orbis Pictus Award for Outstanding Nonfiction for Children)

The Trailblazing Life of Daniel Boone and How Cheryl Harness Early Americans Took to the Road (Cheryl Harness Histories)

Kids Discover Magazine - Pioneers

Biographies: Title Author Level

Sacagawea: Hameray Publishing N

Bill Pickett: Rodeo-Ridin' Cowboy Andrea Davis Pinkney P

Annie Oakley Charles Wills

The Trouble Begins at 8: A Life of Mark Twain in Sid Fleischman (YA) the Wild, Wild West

Historical Fiction: Title Author Level

How to Get Rich on the Oregon Trail Tod Olson

Bad News for Outlaws Vanda Micheauz R

On Viney’s Mountain Joan Donaldson

The Cowgirl Way: Hats Off to America’s Women of Holly George-Warren the West

Francis Tucket series Gary Paulson

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