Cowboys of the Wild West
by Russell Freedman
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Describes, in text and illustrations, the duties, clothes, equipment, and day-to-day life of the cowboys who flourished in the west from the 1860's to the 1890's.Tags
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Cowboys of the Wild West, written by Russel Freedman, is a specialized nonfiction book about cowboys. Even though this book covers specific and limited information about the topic, the information in this text is geared to the personal interests of children in grades 4-6. Filled with real photographs with descriptive captions are interlaced in the text to help bring to life the realities, not the myths, involved in being a cowboy or cowgirl. Freedman did his research before writing this book, and it is spelled out in the twenty-two sources cited in his Acknowledgements and Bibliography. One of the most interesting parts of this book is the four line poem written as an epigraph. In the chapter titled “Ranch Life”, the following lines show more set the tone for the life of a cowboy as it relates to the section:
I am a wandering cowboy,
From ranch to ranch I roam;
At every ranch when welcome,
I make myself at home.
This book would be great for children in order to extend the content area of interested students in a social studies unit on Westward Expansion or Frontier Living. It would also dispel some of the folklore and/or baggage that sometimes come along with cowboys and the Wild West. Informative read. show less
I am a wandering cowboy,
From ranch to ranch I roam;
At every ranch when welcome,
I make myself at home.
This book would be great for children in order to extend the content area of interested students in a social studies unit on Westward Expansion or Frontier Living. It would also dispel some of the folklore and/or baggage that sometimes come along with cowboys and the Wild West. Informative read. show less
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Russell Freedman was born in San Francisco, California on October 11, 1929. He received a bachelor's degree in English from the University of California, Berkeley in 1951. After college, he served in the U.S. Counter Intelligence Corps during the Korean War. After his military service, he became a reporter and editor with the Associated Press. In show more 1956, he took a position at the advertising agency J. Walter Thompson in New York, where he did publicity writing for television. In 1965, he became a full-time writer. His first book, Teenagers Who Made History, was published in 1961. He went on to publish more than 60 nonfiction titles for young readers including Immigrant Kids, Cowboys of the Old West, Indian Chiefs, Martha Graham: A Dancer's Life, Confucius: The Golden Rule, Because They Marched: The People's Campaign for Voting Rights That Changed America, Vietnam: A History of the War, and The Sinking of the Vasa. He received the Newbery Medal for Lincoln: A Photobiography and three Newbery Honors for Eleanor Roosevelt: A Life of Discovery, The Wright Brothers: How They Invented the Airplane, and The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights. He also received the Regina Medal, the May Hill Arbuthnot Lecture Award, the Orbis Pictus Award, the Sibert Medal, a Sibert Honor, the Laura Ingalls Wilder Medal, and the National Humanities Medal. He died on March 16, 2018 at the age of 88. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- Original title
- Cowboys of the Wild West
- Original publication date
- 1985
- Important places
- Western USA
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- English, German
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