It Happened on the Underground Railroad(2nd Edition) Remarkable Events that Shaped History (It Happened in America) by TriciaMartineauWagner Paperback, 200 Pages, Published 2015 by Globe Pequot Press ISBN-13: 978-1-4930-1574-0, ISBN: 1-4930-1574-5
"From a riverboat worker who dressed as a woman to the abolitionist who died for his beliefs, It Happened on the Underground Railroad offers a gripping look at heroic individuals who became a part of the famous “road” to freedom. Read about Peter Still, a former slave who came to the Philadelphia Antislavery Society in search of his family, only to discover that the man sitting in front of him was his brother. Meet the individuals who ma ..."
" Many of the events that took place along the Oregon Trail are well known--the perils the Applegate family faced as they rafted down the raging Columbia River, the plight of the Donner Party as they found themselves snowbound and starving at Truckee Lake. But do you know the whole story?It Happened on the Oregon Trail reveals the stories of these well-known events as well as many lesser-known happenings, providing insights about the adv ..."
Black Cowboys of the Old West(1st Edition) True, Sensational, And Little-Known Stories From History by TriciaMartineauWagner Paperback, 200 Pages, Published 2010 by Twodot ISBN-13: 978-0-7627-6071-8, ISBN: 0-7627-6071-0
"The word cowboy conjures up vivid images of rugged men on saddled horses―men lassoing cattle, riding bulls, or brandishing guns in a shoot-out. White men, as Hollywood remembers them. What is woefully missing from these scenes is their counterparts: the black cowboys who made up one-fourth of the wranglers and rodeo riders. This book tells their story. When the Civil War ended, black men left the Old South in large numbers to seek a liv ..."
"The brave pioneers who made a life on the frontier were not only male—and they were not only white. The story of African-American women in the Old West is one that has largely gone untold until now. The stories of ten African-American women are reconstructed from historic documents found in century-old archives. Some of these women slaves, some were free, and some were born into slavery and found freedom in the old west. They were laund ..."
"It Happened on the Oregon Trail includes twenty-nine unusual, remarkable, little known events that happened along the trail from Independence, Missouri to Oregon's Willamette Valley. From Rufus K. Porter's brilliant plan to fly people to Oregon in hot air balloons, to the plight of a young girl who climbed Independence Rock to carve her name and was left behind by her wagon party, this book reveals the hidden stories about the trail."
"Young animal lovers will delight in all the crazy things animals do that seem too crazy to believe, but are really true! This book describes real animals and their wacky quirks, whether incredible, funny, or just plain gross, these peculiar and fascinating animal behaviors will surprise and delight fun-fact lovers of all ages. Everything from vultures vomiting roadkill at would-be attackers to naked mole rats who run just as fast backwa ..."
"Young animal lovers will delight in all the crazy things animals do that seem too crazy to believe, but are really true! This book describes real animals and their wacky quirks, whether incredible, funny, or just plain gross, these peculiar and fascinating animal behaviors will surprise and delight fun-fact lovers of all ages. Everything from giraffes cleaning their ears with their tongues to frogs freezing in the winter!"
"Winner of ASJA's (American Society of Journalists and Authors) 2018 Annual Writing Awards for Children/Young Adult Nonfiction.50 Wacky Things Animals Do is loaded with all the wacky, interesting, and sometimes gross things animals do that seem too crazy to be true, but are! The planet Earth is a big place, and it's filled with all kinds of animals that do some pretty crazy things! For example, did you know that giraffes clean their ears ..."
"From a riverboat worker who dressed as a woman to the abolitionist who died for his beliefs, It Happened on the Underground Railroad offers a gripping look at heroic individuals who became a part of the famous road” to freedom. Read about Peter Still, a former slave who came to the Philadelphia Antislavery Society in search of his family, only to discover that the man sitting in front of him was his brother. Meet the individuals who ma ..."
"See Liz (slave) Maryland, 56, 61, 70, 72, 85–87, 93, 112, 114 Mason County,
Kentucky, 128 Massachusetts, 15–16, 67, 68–69, 83; Johnson, Nathan, and, 1–4;
Johnson, Polly, and, 1–4; Walker, M., in, 66–67. See also Boston, Massachusetts
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), 4 Mattaner, John, 81 May, Cora.
See Ford, Barney McCague, Kitty, 26 McCague, Thomas, 26 McClure, James, 75
–77 McKiernon, Bernard, 96, 97, 99, 100 McKiernon ..."
It Happened in It Happened on the Oregon Trail, 2nd by TriciaMartineauWagner 224 Pages, Published 2014 by Rowman & Littlefield ISBN-13: 978-1-4930-1122-3, ISBN: 1-4930-1122-7
"The engraved iron wagon-wheel rim was then pressed into an oval shape under
the weight of the men and boys bearing down on the tongue of the wagon. The
nearly seven-foot-long bent wheel rim was buried partway in the earth, and the
grave was then filled with soil. There the iron marker would stand as a beacon to
all who would pass, so that they could pay their respects to the highly revered
pioneer woman. It was a tribute to the sac ..."
Black Cowboys of the Old West True, Sensational, and Little-Known Stories from History by TriciaMartineauWagner 192 Pages, Published 2010 by Rowman & Littlefield ISBN-13: 978-0-7627-6742-7, ISBN: 0-7627-6742-1
"The Western Historical Quarterly, Vol. 32, no. 1 (spring, 2001). Perlin, Don. “Black
cowboys.” Golden Legacy Illustrated History Series, Vol. 12, 1988. Porter,
Kenneth W. “Black cowboys in the american West: negro labor in the Western
cattle industry, 1866–1900.” Labor History, Vol. 10, 1969. “Postal service to
Distribute Faulty Bill Pickett stamp.” Jet, June 27, 1994. Preston, Douglas. “
Fossils & the Folsom cowboy.” Natural Histor ..."
"Or that food passes through a giant squid's brain before going to its stomach? It's true! 50 Wacky Things Animals Do describes 50 unbelievable animals and the things they do that seem too crazy to be true - but are!"
"“A must-have for young ones interested in history and geology alike.” —Aaron Kepley Fifty years before the California Gold Rush, twelve-year-old Conrad Reed unearthed a shiny rock from a creek in North Carolina. Conrad had struck gold―but he had no idea. For three years, the Reed family unknowingly used a hunk of solid gold worth thousands of dollars as a doorstop. When news finally got out about Conrad’s discovery, the lives of the Ree ..."
"Robin Holmes and the local abolitionists who supported him. However, Ford
intended to keep Harriet (thirteen), Mary Jane (nine) ,James (five), and Roxanna (
three) until they all came of age-twenty-one for boys and eighteen for girls. He
claimed that he had the right to do so since he had supported the children thus
far and felt entitled to get more work out of them when they were older. Ford was
short on money. All his gold earning ..."