Black Frontiers: A History of African American Heroes in the Old West

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Aladdin

Annotation: Focuses on the experiences of blacks as mountain men, soldiers, homesteaders, and scouts on the frontiers of the American West.

Genre: [United States history]

Reviews: 4

Catalog Number: #4796153

Format: Paperback

Common Core/STEAM: Common Core

Publisher: Aladdin

Edition Date: 2000 Release Date: 02/01/00

Pages: 80 pages

ISBN: 0-689-83315-6

ISBN 13: 978-0-689-83315-1

Dewey: 978

LCCN: 92000120

Dimensions: 21 x 26 cm.

Subject Heading:
African Americans. Biography.
Cowboys.
African American soldiers.
Frontier and pioneer life.
West (U.S.). Biography.

Language: English

Reviewing Agencies: - Find Other Reviewed Titles
National Council For Social Studies Notable Children's Trade
Voice of Youth Advocates
Wilson's Children's Catalog
Wilson's Junior High Catalog

Bibliography Index/Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 76-77) and index.

Word Count: 10,959

Reading Level: 6.8

Interest Level: 4-7

Accelerated Reader: reading level: 6.8 / points: 2.0 / quiz: 35627 / grade: Middle Grades

Reading Counts!: reading level:6.1 / points:5.0 / quiz:Q21669

Lexile: 1090L

Meet the black men and women who settled the Old West in this striking nonfiction middle grade book.

From 1865 to the early 1900s, brave black people headed west in search of a new life on their own and with their families. Scouts and mountain men explored the unfamiliar terrain, miners panned for gold, and families homesteaded on the Great Plains. Black people were soldiers, business owners, and cowboys.

These true stories from history are accompanied by rare photographs so young readers can meet these incredible individuals face-to-face.

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