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Eye Witness to History: The Old West WebsiteEye Witness to History: The Old West Website
Publisher
Ibis Communications
Resource Details
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Grade
9th - 10th
Subjects
Social Studies & History
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Eye Witness to History: The Old West

Curated by ACT

This resource provides first-hand accounts and background information on the Old West. Content touches on crossing the plains, cowboys, train robberies, Dalton Gang's Last Raid, Custer's Last Stand, the Death of Billy the Kid, and much more.

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Concepts

westward expansion

Additional Tags

1861, 1892, buffalo hunt, crossing the plains, expanding the frontier, old west, settlement of the great plains, settling the frontier, settling the west, train robbery, wagon train, apache, billy the kid, butch cassidy, custer's last stand, dalton gang's last raid, indian wars, sundance kid, texas cowboys, wild bunch, battle of little bighorn, death of billy the kid, massacre at wounded knee, settling the frontier (1860-1900)

Classroom Considerations

  • Knovation Readability Score: 3 (1 low difficulty, 5 high difficulty)
  • This resource is only available on an unencrypted HTTP website.It should be fine for general use, but don’t use it to share any personally identifiable information

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