96 pages : illustrations (some color), color map ; 27 cm
Summary
Read about the Old West and its people.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (page 92) and index.
Contents
Civil War -- Reconstruction begins: 1863-1864 -- Homestead Act -- American frontier: 1865 -- First settlers: Native Americans -- Assassination of President Abraham Lincoln, Andrew Johnson and presidential reconstruction -- "Contrabands" and Freedmen -- Carpetbaggers and scalawags -- Transcontinental Railroad -- Civil War amendments -- Land and social reform in the South -- Sodbusters and barbed wire -- Congressional reconstruction -- Impeachment of Andrew Johnson -- President Ulysses S. Grant -- Corruption, scandal, and the Civil Service -- Immigrants -- Roughing it: Women on the Frontier -- Wyoming territory and women's suffrage -- Civil Rights Act of 1875 -- Prejudice, racism, and the Ku Klux Klan -- End of Reconstruction: 1877 -- Cowboy -- Cattle drives -- Map for highways for the herds -- Broken treaties and reservations -- Outlaws -- Wild west in popular culture -- Lawmen -- Indian wars in the Northern plains -- Sitting Bull, Crazy Horse, and the Sioux -- Battle of the Little Bighorn -- Buffalo soldiers -- Frontier arts and letters -- Indian wars in the Southwest -- Geronimo and the Apache -- Ghost dance -- Last days of the Frontier: 1890 -- Glossary -- Bibliography -- American frontier web sites -- Index.
