Heroes of the American West (Masterplots II: Juvenile and Young Adult Biography Series)
At a glance:
- Author: n/a
- First Published: 1969
- Time of Work: 1830–1890
- Setting: The Western United States
- Principal Characters: Washington Irving, Narcissa, Samuel Langhorne Clemens, Charles Goodnight
- Genres: Nonfiction, Biography
- Subjects: Cattle, Authors or writers, Nineteenth century, Missions or missionaries, Southwest, Heroes or heroism, Biography, Frontier or pioneer life, Exploration or explorers, Trapping
- Locales: West (U.S.)
Form and Content
In Heroes of the American West, Martha R. Pappas has assembled an anthology of writings that reflect the life experienced by people on the Western frontier of the United States during the nineteenth century. The selections included in this collection cover the period from about 1830 to the close of the frontier in about 1890. Several of the pieces were written by well-known, professional authors such as Washington Irving and Mark Twain. Others are the stories of relatively unknown individuals who performed acts of bravery or perseverance and who tell...
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