This newly revised edition of Visiting a Village is an ideal introduction to understanding the concept of community. Children will learn how the people in early communities worked together with a spirit of cooperation by trading their goods and services with each other. Knowing about what they might see on their first visit to an historic site will help spark a child's curiosity. In this book, they will meet such individuals as: the miller, the sawyer,...

Matthew Garth was orphaned in a savage wagon train ambush and adopted by Red River hero Thomas Dunson. Twenty years later Matt has two strapping sons of his own and is undertaking a desperate cattle drive from Texas to Dodge City, the new queen of frontier cattle towns. While the deadly dangers of storms and rustlers gather around them, an act of passion and violence from within the drive--and from within the Garth family--leaves Matt fighting for...

Life on the prairie is depicted in this rhyming alphabet book.

In 'The Lion Hunter and the Lady," Cat Morgan is plying his trade - trying to bag a mountain lion alive in order to sell it to a circus or zoo. As he and Long John William try to lure the cat from a tree, they're interrupted by a lynch posse led by Karl Dorfman, who accuses Cat and Long John of running off his horse herd - and Dorfman intends to hang them right where they stand! "The Trail to Peach Meadow Canon" tells of Mike Bastian, who has been...

A freak cattle stampede throws a young girl visiting her uncle's ranch into a life-or-death struggle with a local outlaw gang! Young Hope Farman has arrived from the East for a visit with her uncle Nate at his Rancho del Encanto. She is being driven to the ranch when a cloud of dust appears on the horizon, filled with thundering hooves, as a cattle stampede storms toward them! In the chaos that ensues, Hope is thrown from her seat and into the path...

Follows the life and times of a group of men and women who set up camp in Deadwood, South Dakota during the gold rush of 1876.