American West & Pioneer History Bundle

Four titles that bring the American West and westward expansion to life for students in Grades 9 through 12 through primary sources, historical narrative, and literary fiction. Ezra Meeker and Howard R. Driggs's Ox-Team Days on the Oregon Trail is a firsthand account of overland emigration that reads as both history and adventure. Henry Inman and William Cody's The Great Salt Lake Trail documents the fur trade era and the military campaigns that shaped the mountain West. Mark Twain and Lee Nelson's Huck and Tom Among the Indians places Twain's iconic characters on the frontier in an unfinished manuscript completed by Nelson, connecting canonical American literature to Western history. Rodney K. Smith's James Madison: The Father of Religious Liberty anchors the set in the constitutional foundations that shaped expansion-era law and policy. Together these four titles support U.S. history, American literature, and government standards. .