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48 pp.
| National
| March, 2010
|
TradeISBN 978-1-4263-0524-5$18.95
|
LibraryISBN 978-1-4263-0525-2$27.90
(3)
4-6
Illustrated by
Scott Allred
&
Gregory Proch.
This latest How to Get Rich book is a fictitious first-person account of an almost-sixteen-year-old cowboy in the 1870s on his first cattle drive. The text details a stampede, conflicts with farmers and greedy ranchers, and encounters with Native Americans. Illustrations, photographs of real people, journals, maps, ledgers, and other "artifacts" enhance the you-are-there approach. An afterword helps sort truth from fiction. Reading list, websites.
202 pp.
| Scholastic
| September, 2000
|
TradeISBN 0-439-09828-9$$16.95
(2)
4-6
Civil War veteran Stick and orphan Whittle meet at an isolated campsite along the Chisholm Trail, signaling the beginning of a beautiful friendship and an entertaining adventure. Stick and Whittle plan a raid and, with the help of some genre-appropriate stock characters, rescue Stick's kidnapped sweetheart. Hite's laidback tone leaves no doubt that all will end happily; his tongue-in-cheek telling defines the adventure as a diversionary romp.
Reviewer: Betty Carter
| Horn Book Magazine Issue:
January, 2001
112 pp.
| Enslow
| July, 2000
|
LibraryISBN 0-7660-1345-6$$19.95
(4)
4-6
In American History series.
The Weatherford volume traces the issue of civil rights across one hundred and fifty years of American history; the other books are more concentrated, explaining the political culture of individual eras, identifying notable figures, and discussing the continuing legacy of the events described. Occasionally drab black-and-white photos and reproductions accompany the texts. Bib., ind.
118 pp.
| Harcourt
| September, 1999
|
TradeISBN 0-15-201815-8$$16.00
(4)
YA
The youth of George McJunkin, a real-life African-American cowboy, is fictionalized in a novel that follows the teen as he leaves his home in post-Civil War Texas and joins a cattle drive. The writing is smooth, but the episodic story is predictable and doesn't offer much beyond the usual elements of the genre--a rattlesnake bite, a dangerous river crossing, and confrontations with horse thieves and Native Americans. Bib., glos.