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Author
Series
Magic tree house. Original series volume 23
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
When Jack and Annie travel back to the Kansas prairie in search of "something to learn," they gain an understanding of how hard life was for pioneers and they experience the terror of a tornado.
3) Wagon wheels
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Shortly after the Civil War a black family travels to Kansas to take advantage of the free land offered through the Homestead Act.
7) May B
Author
Pub. Date
[2012]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
When a failed wheat crop nearly bankrupts the Betterly family, Pa pulls twelve-year-old May from school and hires her out to a couple new to the Kansas frontier.
Author
Pub. Date
[1996]
Language
English
Description
Orphaned by their mother's death, two Irish Catholic sisters find a home with a kind Protestant couple on the Kansas frontier, but their new life is suddenly threatened by the appearance of their uncle, who is determined to take them back to New York and their "true" religion.
11) To the frontier
Author
Series
Adventures of young Buffalo Bill volume 1
Pub. Date
2001.
Language
English
Description
After the death of his brother, eight-year-old Bill Cody and his family set out from Iowa to make a new home for themselves in the volatile Kansas Territory.
12) For this land
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2001.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Meg records in her diary the events from July to November of 1856, when her family is reunited and must face challenges from fires to pro-slavery border ruffians who are trying to take over Kansas Territory.
13) One sky above us
Author
Series
Adventures of young Buffalo Bill volume 2
Pub. Date
2001.
Language
English
Description
Having settled on the Kansas frontier, young Bill Cody and his family try to make a home for themselves, coexist with their Kickapoo neighbors, and stand up as abolitionists in spite of their neighbors' pro-slavery beliefs.
14) The sod house
Author
Pub. Date
©1954
Language
English
Description
The majority in Congress depends on who holds Kansas - the Northerners or the Southerners. The Traubel family are among the Northern sympathizers who travel to Kansas shortly before the Civil War to keep a majority for their side. Little Ilse Traubel becomes a heroine in her own right.
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