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Early Western Trails

Picture Books - Grades 3-5 - Nonfiction

Picture Books (Preschool – Grade 2)

Araminta’s Paint Box
Karen Ackerman
E ACKERMA

Beaver’s Lodge
Ingrid and Dieter SchubertE SCHUBERT 2001

Best Friends
Loretta Krupinski
E KRUPINSK 1998

Coyote: A Trickster Tale from the Southwest
J 398.2452 MCDERMO 1994

Fat Chance, Claude
Joan Lowery Nixon
E NIXON

Going West
Laura Ingalls Wilder
E WILDER 1996

Hog Music
N.C. Helldorfer
E HELLDORF 2000

Lewis and Papa: Adventure on the Santa Fe Trail
E JOOSSE 1998

Nine for California
Sonia Levitan
E LEVITIN 1996. Also on Talking Book

Seaman’s Journal: On the Trail with Lewis and Clark
E EUBANK 2002

Sweetwater Run: The Story of Buffalo Bill Cody and the Pony Express
Andrew Glass
E GLASS 1996

Who Came Down That Road?
George Ella Lyon
E LYON 1992

Grades 3-5

Bound for Oregon
Jean Van Leeuwen
J VAN-LEE 1994

Broken Blade
Wiliam Durbin
J DURBIN 1997

I’m Sorry, Almira Ann
Jane Kurtz
J KURTZ 1999

Meet Josefina, an American Girl
Valerie Tripp
J TRIPP 1997. Also in Spanish.

Mr. Tucket
Gary Paulsen
J PAULSEN 1994.  Also on Talking Book.

Night of the Full Moon
Gloria Whelan
J WHELAN 1993

Seaman: The Dog Who Explored the West with Lewis and Clark
Gail Karwoski
J KARWOSKI 2002

Trouble at Fort La Pointe
Kathleen Ernst
(American Girl History Mysteries) J HISTORY 2000

Nonfiction

Along the Santa Fe Trail: Marion Russell’s Own Story
Ginger Wadsworth
J 978.02 WADSWOR 1993

Animals on the Trail with Lewis and Clark
Dorothy Hinshaw Patent
J 917.8042 PATENT 2002

Cat’s Cradle, Owl’s Eyes: A Book of String Games
Camilla Gryski
J 793.9 GRYSKI 1984

Daily Life in a Covered Wagon
Paul Erickson
J 917.8042 ERICKSO 1994

Dog of Discovery: A Newfoundland’s Adventures with Lewis and Clark
L. Pringle
J 917.8042 PRINGLE 2002

The Laura Ingalls Wilder Songbook
Eugenia Garson
J 784.4 GARSON 1968

Lewis and Clark for Kids: Their Journey of Discovery with 21 Activities
Janis Herbert
J 917.8042 HERBERT 2000

The Life and Death of Crazy Horse
Russell Freedman
JB CRAZY-HO FREEDMAN 1996

Mississippi Mud: Three Prairie Journals
Ann Turner
J 811.54 TURNER 1996

More than Moccasins: A Kid’s Activity Guide to Traditional North American Indian Life
Laurie Carlson
J 973.0497 CARLSON 1994

Mountain Men: True Grit and Tall Tales
Andrew Glass
J 978.0209 GLASS 2001

On the Trail of Lewis and Clark: A Journey Up the Missouri River
Peter Lourie
J 917.8042 LOURIE 2002

Oregon Trail Cooking
Mary Gunderson
J 641.5978 GUNDERSO 2000

A Picture Book of Sacagawea
David A. Adler
JB SACAGAWE ADLER 2000

A Pioneer Sampler: The Daily Life of a Pioneer Family, 1840
J 971.3 GREENWOO 1995

Thunder on the Plains: The Story of the American Buffalo
Ken Robins|
J 599.643 ROBBINS 2001

Words West: Voices of Young Pioneers
J 917.8042 WADSWOR 2003

Summer 2004

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Revised 6/12/2008