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CULTURE
FC   F7-247   First Bride of Seattle
FC   W12-424   A Campfire Interpreter
FC   G7-280   Employers and Employees
FC   G9-365   The Mormons  (Part of Had You Been Born in Another Faith)
FC   N11-210   God Be With You
FC   N11-246   Phoebe Cary
FC   WS7   U.S. Expansion
♦   The Sound of Trumpets:   Selections from Ralph Waldo Emerson by James Daugherty
HISTORY
FC   SS6   In My Youth
♥   In My Youth   by Robert Dudley (1914) 
I loved this book. Tons of 'gems'. Robert Dudley was a pen name for James Baldwin who you may recognize as the story teller of many of the books I use.  A great insight into olden days.
♥   Memoirs of John R. Young: Utah Pioneer (1847)
Engaging first hand account of pioneer and missionary life.
♥   Lewis and Clark: Partners in Discovery   by John Bakeless (1947)
Contains 'an immense amount of hitherto unknown material'. Considered one of the best books on Lewis and Clark.
♦   $   ​Men to Match My Mountains  by Irving Stone
Here are a lot of interesting facts and stories to weave into understanding the kind of people it took to make homes in the West. I recommend sharing it with your older students who have more mature judgment--even college age.  I wouldn't make this my first thread of story weaving, but very worthwhile for deepening understanding.
♦   Old Hickory:  Andrew Jackson and the American People by Albert Marrin
♦   Rails Across the Continent by Enid Johnson
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♥   The Log of a Cowboy—a narrative of the old trail days  by Andy Adams (1904)
True-to-life story of an 1882 cattle drive from the Rio Grande to Montana.  Long considered the best and most reliable account of real cowboy life ever written.
♥   The Way to the West  by Emerson Hough (1903)
In depth stories of Daniel Boone, Davy Crockett and Kit Carson.
♥   William Clayton’s Journal  A daily record of the journey of the original company of Mormon pioneers from Nauvoo to Salt Lake City.
HISTORICAL FICTION
♦   $   ​Men to Match My Mountains  by Irving Stone
Here are a lot of interesting facts and stories to weave into understanding the kind of people it took to make homes in the West. I recommend sharing it with your older students who have more mature judgment--even college age.  I wouldn't make this my first thread of story weaving, but very worthwhile for deepening understanding.
♦   $   ​​Patterns on the Wall by Elizabeth Yates
Good and Beautiful Book. "Things are not easy for Jared Austin, but with hard work and indomitable perseverance, he turns his life into something beautiful, just like the walls that he stencils. This historical fiction novel features fascinating character development, an engaging and unpredictable plot, and wonderful insights into life in New England during the early 1800s, including the “frozen year” of 1816. Elizabeth Yates has woven in moving messages of kindness, gratitude to God, faith, appreciation of nature, hard work, love of learning, self-improvement, optimism, humility, long-suffering, and patience."
FICTION
♦   $   ​​Love Comes Softly by Janette Oke
CLASSIC LITERATURE
FC   G12-332   About Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm
♥   The Virginian  by Owen Wister
The first western novel to use the cowboy as a heroic figure. 'A strong, silent stranger rides into the lawless land of the western frontier, battles horse thieves, deals with scoundrels, and wins the heart of the schoolmarm'.  A hero governed by quiet courage and a deep sense of honor.
BIOGRAPHIES
FC   W12-194   Ezra Cornell
FC   W12-207   Charles Goodyear
FC   G4-205   Father Damien
FC   G7-183   Leland Stanford
FC   G7-258   Charles Pratt
FC   G11-195   Jemima Johnson
FC   G11-225   Mother of Garfield
FC   G11-254   Jean Lathrop Stanford
FC   G11-279   'The Princess' of Wellesley
FC   G12-54   Washington Irving
FC   G12-223   Glimpses of Mark Twain
FC   G12-264   Orison Swett Marden
FC   G12-269   Laura Richards
FC   G12-305   Henry VanDyke
FC   G12-317   Kate Douglas Wiggin
♦   $   ​Alaska's Railroad Builder: Mike Heney by Edward A. Herron
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♦   America's First Trained Nurse by Rachel Baker
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♦   Angel of Mercy:  Dorothea Dix by Rachel Baker
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♥   $   ​Benjamin Bonneville:  Soldier-Explorer by Helen Markley Miller
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♦   Bill Williams:  Mountain Man by Enid Johnson
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♥   Bride of Glory: The Story of Elizabeth Custer by Margaret Leight
The story of the wife of General Custer.
♦   Buffalo Bill by Shannon Garst
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♦   Cancer, Cocaine and Courage:  The Story of Dr. William Halstead by Crane and Beckhard
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♥   Christopher ('Kit') Carson by John Abbott
"...was the child of the wilderness.  He was by nature a gentleman, and one of the most lovable of men.  His weird-like life passed rapidly away, before the introduction of railroads and steamboats.  His strange, heroic adventures are ever read with astonishment, and they invariably secure for him the respect and affection of all who become familiar with his name."
♦   $   ​Cowboy Artist:  Charles M. Russell by Shannon Garst
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♥   Daniel Boone, Pioneer of Kentucky by John Abbott
"...was the Cowper of the wilderness; a solitary man loving the silent companionship of the woods.   He leads us across the Alleghanies to the fields of Kentucky, before any white man's foot had traversed those magnificent realms.   No tale of romance could ever surpass his adventure with the Indians."
♦   Dick Wootton:   Trail Blazer of Raton Pass by Shannon Garst
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♥   Dr. Morton:  Pioneer in the Use of Ether by Rachel Baker
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♦   First Woman Ambulance Surgeon:  Emily Barringer by Iris Noble
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♦   $   ​First Woman Editor:  Sarah J. Hale by Olive Woolley Burt 
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♦   $   ​Frederick Law Olmstead: Park Designer by Iris Noble
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♦   $   ​Frontier Hero:  Simon Kenton by Shannon Garst
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♦   $   ​Gene Rhodes:  Cowboy by B.F. Day
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♥   $   ​Inventive Wizard:  George Westinghouse by I.E. Levine
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♦   $   ​James Fenimore Cooper by Isabel Proudfit
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♥   $   ​Joseph Pulitzer:  Front Page Pioneer by Iris Noble
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♦   $   ​Man of Courage:  The Story of Dr. Edward L. Trudeau by Kathryn E. Harrod
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♥   $   ​Master Bridge Builders: The Story of the Roeblings by Kathryn E. Harrod
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♦   $   ​Nellie Bly:  First Woman Reporter by Iris Noble
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♦   ​O. Henry:  The Story of William Sydney Porter by Jeannette Covert Nolan
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♦   $   ​Old Hickory:  Andrew Jackson by Albert Marrin
♦   Petticoats West by Olive Burt
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♦   $   ​Roy Rogers:  King of the Cowboys by Frank Rasky
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♦   Son of the Smoky Sea:  The Story of an Aleutian Islander by Alden Hatch
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♥   The Autobiography of Mark Twain
♥   Walt Whitman:  Builder for America by Babette Deutsch
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♥   Will Rogers:  Immortal Cowboy by Shannon Garst
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Vol. 10: 466-511  American Life in American Fiction
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