Apple dumpling gang: A roving bachelor inherits three young orphans and a wealth of problems. When the kids discover a gold nugget they must fend off the greedy townspeople, so they join forces with bumbling outlaws to stage a robbery of the gold. Apple dumpling gang rides again: Two bumbling outlaws try to go straight, but can't even seem to get that right. They make a deposit in a bank and are accused of robbing it ; they join the U.S. Cavalry...

A collection of twelve original plays dramatizing songs, folklore, historical events, and larger-than-life characters of the Wild West.

Includes "Goodbye, ol' Paint," "Sweet Betsy from Pike," "Shenandoah," and "The streets of Laredo."

An examination of the roles of law enforcement agents in frontier towns of the old West.

Travel with the explorers who in 1804 set out from the Missouri River to help expand the nation to the Pacific coast. Discover rivers, waterfalls, animals, and plants that were unknown to people east of the Mississippi River. Learn how people sailed through rapids, crossed rivers, and traveled over mountains. Meet new tribes of American Indians and find out how a U.S. President's dream came true. This book describes in detail the lives of adventurous...

Discusses the history of the Homestead Act, what states were involved, how people lived and crossed the land to open the Western United States.

A light-hearted look at some of the difficulties faced by the pioneers who traveled by wagon train across the United States to settle in the West.

Presents a look at daily life in pioneer America during the 1850s by following a family that emigrates from Sweden to Minnesota.

Briefly explores what it was like to travel across the country by wagon train, including first-hand accounts about such things as cooking on the trail and dangers to be faced.

Discusses the everyday life, cooking methods, and common foods of cowboys who moved cattle across the American West in the late nineteenth century. Includes recipes.