Resources
Great Pioneer Projects You Can Build Yourself

Books

• Allen, John Logan. Jedediah Smith and the Mountain Men of the American West. Chelsea House, 1991.
• Bial, Raymond. Frontier Home. Houghton Mifflin, 1993.
• Broida, Marian. Projects about Westward Expansion. Benchmark Books, 2004.
• Collier, Christopher. Indians, Cowboys, and Farmers and the Battle for the Great Plains, Benchmark Books, 2000.
• Doherty, Kieran. Voyageurs, Lumberjacks, and Farmers: Pioneers of the Midwest. The Oliver Press, 2004.
• Doherty, Kieran. Ranchers, Homesteaders, and Traders: Frontiersmen of the South- Central States. The Oliver Press, 2001.
• Duncan, Dayton. People of the West. The West Project, 1996.
• Green, Carl R. The Mission Trails in American History. Enslow Publishers, 2001.
  Greenwood, Barbara. Pioneer Crafts. Kids Can Press, 1997.
• Greenwood, Barbara. A Pioneer Sampler: The Daily Life of a Pioneer Family in 1840. Houghton Mifflin, 1995.
• Harvey, Brett. Farmers and Ranchers. 21st Century Books, 1995.
• Herb, Angela M. Beyond the Mississippi: Early Westward Expansion of the United States. Lodestar Books, 1996.
• Hevly, Nancy. Preachers and Teachers. 21st Century Books, 1995.
• Josephson, Judith Pinkerton. Growing up in Pioneer America, 1800–1890.Lerner Publications Company, 2003.
• King, David C. Pioneer Days: Discover the Past with Fun Projects, Games, Activities, and Recipes. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 1997.
• Markel, Rita J. Your Travel Guide to America’s Old West. Lerner Publications Company, 2004.
• Morley, Jacqueline. You Wouldn’t Want to be an American Pioneer. Franklin Watts, 2002.
• Morley, Jacqueline. How Would you Survive in the American West? Franklin Watts, 1995.
• Reef, Catherine. Buffalo Soldiers. 21st Century Books, 1993.
• Ritchie, David. Frontier Life: Life in America 100 Years Ago. Chelsea House Publishers, 1996.
• Sandler, Martin W. Pioneers: A Library of Congress Book. Harper Collins, 1994.
• Sigerman, Harriet. Land of Many Hands; Women in the American West. Oxford University Press, 1997.
• Stefoff, Rebecca. The Oregon Trail in American History. Enslow Publishers Inc., 1997.
• Stefoff, Rebecca. Women Pioneers. Facts on File, 1995.
• Stegner, Page. Winning the Wild West: The Epic Saga of the American Frontier, 1800- 1899. The Free Press, 2002.
• Sundling, Charles W. Cowboys of the Frontier. Abdo Publishing Company, 2000.
• Uschan, Michael V. Westward Expansion. Lucent Books, 2001.
• Wadsworth, Ginger. Words West: Voices of Young Pioneers. Clarion Books, 2003.
• Weinstein, Allen and David Rubel. The Story of America. Agincourt Press, 2002.