Historical photographs and easy-to-understand text help describe what life was like in the American West, discussing cattle rustlers, bank robbers, women outlaws, the honor and code of the West, U.S. Marshals, Texas Rangers, and Pinerton Detectives, and their roles in giving the region its wild reputation.

A biography of the nineteenth-century author whose antislavery novel "Uncle Tom's Cabin" helped intensify the disagreement between North and South.

Provides a brief description of what school was like on the American frontier, discussing the buildings, teachers, supplies, and challenges for a formal education.

A biography of the Philadelphia seamstress who helped design and make the first flag to represent the United States of America.