Peoples of the American West; historical perspectives through children's literature / Mary Hurlburt Cordier and Maria A. Perez-Stable.
Summary
A struggling cottonwood sapling becomes a landmark to travelers, a peace-medicine tree, and after its death in 1834, a yoke which is used on the trail to Santa Fe.
Audience
For readers about 6 to 8.
Lexile: 820.
Contents
Lone sapling -- People who walked -- Arrows and spears -- Feasting on the hill -- New animal on the plains -- Bearer of messages -- Talking-tree -- Thunderbird speaks -- Tappers cross the plains -- Wheels turn on the Santa Fe Trail -- Jed and Buck -- Race for life -- Post Office tree -- Cottonwoods don't live forever -- Old tree dies -- Kansas twister -- Past comes to light -- Ox yoke -- Yoke goes to Independence -- Rendezvous at Council Grove -- Return to the hill -- How the wheels rolled westward -- At Bent's Fort -- Hill that was called a mouse -- Yoke comes to Santa Fe -- Heart of the west -- End of the trail.
