Modern American
Westward Expansion, Industrial Revolution & Gold Rush
A Book for Black-eyed Susan, by Judy Young
A Picture Book of Sacagawea, by David A. Adler
A Pioneer Sampler: The Daily Life of a Pioneer Family, by Barbara Greenwood
Apples to Oregon, by Deborah Hopkinson
Bound for Oregon, by Jean Van Leeuwen
Boss of the Plains, by Laurie Carlson
Bound for Oregon by Jean Van Leeuwen
Buffalo Bill, by D’Aulaire
By the Great Horn Spoon, by Sid Fleischman
Caddie Woodlawn, by Carol Ryrie Brink
Caleb’s Story by Patricia MacLachlan
Children of the Covered Wagon, by Mary Jane Carr
Cowboys and Cowgirls, by Gail Gibbons
Custer and Crazy Horse: A Story of Two Warriors, by Jim Razzi
Daily Life in a Covered Wagon, by Paul Erickson
Dandelions, by Eve Bunting
Daniel Boone, by Stevenson
Eli Whitney, Jean Lee Latham
Farmer Boy, by Laura Ingalls Wilder
For Ma and Pa: On the Oregon Trail, 1844., by Wilma Hayes
Gold Fever, by Verla Kay
Gold Rush Fever: A Story of the Klondike 1898, by Barbara Greenwood
Grandfather’s Dance by Patricia MacLachlan
Hattie Big Sky, by Kirby Larson
Hard Gold, by Avi
How We Crossed the West: The Adventures of Lewis and Clark, by Rosalyn Schanzer
I Escaped The Donner Party: Pioneers on the Oregon Trail, 1846 by Scott Peters
If You Traveled West in a Covered Wagon, by Ellen Levine
Kit Carson and the Wild Frontier by Ralph Moody
Land of the Buffalo Bones, by Marion Bauer
Little House in the Big Woods, by Laura Ingalls Wilder
Little House on the Prairie, by Laura Ingalls Wilder
Lewis and Clark and Me: A Dog’s Tale, by Laurie Myers
Moccasin Trail, by Eloise Jarvis McGraw
More Perfect than the Moon by Patricia MacLachlan
Mr. Tucket, by Gary Paulsen
On to Oregon, by Honore Morrow
Our Only May Amelia, by Jennifer Holm
Rachel’s Journal: The Story of a Pioneer Girl, by Marissa Moss
Riders of the Pony Express by Ralph Moody
Prairie Days by Patricia MacLachlan
Prairie Lotus, by Linda Sue Park
Sacagawea, by Flora Warren Seymour
Sarah Whitcher’s Story by Elizabeth Yates
Sarah, Plain and Tall by Patricia MacLachlan
Seaman’s Journal: On the Trail with Lewis and Clark, by Patricia Eubank
Shag: Last of the Plains Buffalo, by Robert McClung
Skylark by Patricia MacLachlan
Stagecoach West by Ralph Moody, Mark L. Gardner
Streams to the River, River to the Sea, by Scott O’Dell
Takini Lakota Boy Alerts Sitting Bull, by Kenneth Thomasma
The Ballad of Lucy Whipple, by Karen Cushman
The Girl Who Loved Wild Horses, by Paul Goble
The Great Horn Spoon! Paperback by Sid Fleischman
The Hundred-Year Barn by Patricia MacLachlan
The Land of Little Rain, by Mary Austin
The Legend of the Bluebonnet, by Tomie dePaola
The Remarkable Rough-Riding Life of Theodore Roosevelt, by Cheryl Harness
The Stouthearted Seven: Orphaned on the Oregon Trail, by Neta Lohnes
Whatever Happened to the Pony Express, by Verla Kay
Who Was Daniel Boone, by Sydelle Kramer
Young Man in a Hurry, Jean Lee Latham
Slavery & Civil War
5,000 Miles to Freedom: Ellen and William Craft’s Flight from Slavery, by Dennis Brindell Fradin
Abe’s Honest Words: The Life of Abraham Lincoln, by Doreen Rappaport
Abraham Lincoln, Friend of the People, by Clara Ingram Judson
Across Five Aprils, by Irene Hunt
Amos Fortune, Free Man, by Elizabeth Yates
Bound for the North Star: True Stories of Fugitive Slaves, by Dennis Brindell Fradin
Brady by Jean Fritz
Bull Run, by Paul Fleishman
Carver: A Life in Poems, by Marilyn Nelson
Civil War Dummer Boy, by Verla Kay
Charley Skedaddle, by Patricia Beatty
Covered Wagons, by Verla Kay
Fields of Fury, by James M. McPherson
Follow the Drinking Gourd, by Jeanette Winter
Freedom Train: The Story of Harriet Tubman, by Dorothy Sterling
Gettysburg: A Day that Changed America, by Shelley Tanaka
Go Free or Die, by Jeri Ferris
Henry’s Freedom Box: A True Story from the Underground Railroad, by Ellen Levine
Iron Horses, by Verla Kay
Iron Thunder, by Avi
Moses: When Harriet Tubman Led Her People to Freedom, by Carole Boston Weatherford
My Name Is Truth: The Life of Sojourner Truth, by Ann Turner
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, by Frederick Douglass
No Man’s Land, by Susan Bartoletti
Nurse, Soldier, Spy, by Marissa MossSeeing the Elephant, by Pat Hughes
Rifles for Watie by Harold Keith
Rough and Tough Charlie, by Verla Kay
Sweet Clara and the Freedom Quilt, by Deborah Hopkinson
The Glorious Conspiracy, by Joanne Williamson
The Last Safe House: A Story of the Underground Railroad, by Barbara Greenwood
The Last Brother, by Trinka Hakes Noble
The Mostly True Adventures of Homer P. Figg, by Rodman Philbrick
The Poems of Phillis Wheatley, by Phillis Wheatley
The Perilous Road, by William O. Steele
The Price of Freedom: How One Town Stood Up to Slavery, by Dennis Brindell Fradin
The Silent Witness, by Robin Friedman
The Underground Abductor, by Nathan Hale
The War Within, by Carol Matas
Turn Homeward, Hannalee, by Patricia Beatty
Underground to Canada, by Barbara Smucker
Up From Slavery, by Booker T. Washington
Walking the Road to Freedom, by Jeri Ferris