Combines the story of the pioneers with recipes and the history of food from the opening and development of the American West.

Imagine being asked to explore an unknown part of the country. That's exactly what happened to Daniel Boone in the mid-1700s. Boone and others cut a path through the wilderness of Kentucky and Virginia. Lively language, historical illustrations, and primary source journal entries from Boone and his fellow settlers help readers feel as if they were a part of the journey. Meets Common Core critical thinking standards, and provides strong ties to social...

Describes how the United States grew through the Louisiana Purchase, the annexation of Texas, the War with Mexico, and the acquisition of Alaska. With text, maps, and illustrations, the book describes how the U.S. grew to reach from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean.

American Indians had lived in North America for thousands of years by the time European settlers arrived. The settlers came in search of land and were eager to build farms, roads, and towns. The Indians lived off the land and believed it belonged to everyone. When the U.S. government completed the Louisiana Purchase in 1803, the plan to expand the country to the Pacific Ocean set up a collision course between the two groups' ways of life.

Students learn about the Louisiana Purchase and other historical events that changed the U.S. in the nineteenth century, including the Lewis and Clark expedition, the California gold rush, and the industrial revolution.

"The surprising story of how Thomas Jefferson commanded an unrivaled age of American exploration, sending out waves of expeditions into the West after the Louisiana Purchase. In presiding over that era of discovery, Jefferson forged a great nation"--

A Civil War hero learns the culture of the Sioux by living with them.

"While in the short term--militarily--the North won the Civil War, in the long term--ideologically--victory went to the South. The continual expansion of the Western frontier allowed a Southern oligarchic ideology to find a new home and take root. Even with the abolition of slavery and the equalizing power of the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments, and the ostensible equalizing of economic opportunity afforded by Western expansion, anti-democratic practices...