What Was the Wild West? book cover
  • US History

What Was the Wild West?

Which of these facts are true?
As many as sixty million buffalo onceroamed the prairie
Many cowboys didn’t carry pistols andweren’t good shots
Cowboys called beans “whistle berries”


Saddle up and get ready for a ride back into the wild and wooly past of the American West.

The west was at its wildest from 1865 to 1895, when territories west of the Mississippi River remained untamed and lawless. Famous for cowboys, American Indians, lawmen, gunslingers, pioneers, and prospectors, this period in US history captures the imagination of all kids and now is brought vividly to life.

Susan B. Anthony book cover

Who Am I?

I personally asked President Theodore Roosevelt to support women’s right to vote.

Theodore Roosevelt
Susan B. Anthony
Steve Irwin

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