5.5/4 Across the Wide and Lonesome Prairie: Th Oregon Trail Diary of Hattie Campbell Gregory, Kristiana. In her diary, thirteen-year-old Hattie chronicles her family's arduous 1847 journey from Missouri to Oregon on the Oregon Trail.
5.8/7 Ballad of Lucy Whipple- Cushman, Karen. In 1849, twelve-year-old California Morning Whipple, who renames herself Lucy, is distraught when her mother moves the family from Massachusetts to a rough California mining town.
5.5/13 Black Storm Comin' Wilson, Diane Lee. Twelve-year-old Colton, son of a black mother and a white father, takes a job with the Pony Express in 1860 after his father abandons the family on their California-bound wagon train, and risks his life to deliver an important letter that may affect the growing conflict between the North and South.
5.2/2 Black-Eyed Susan Armstrong, Jennifer. Ten-year-old Susie and her father love living on the South Dakota prairie with its vast, uninterrupted views of land and sky, but Susie's mother greatly misses their old life in Ohio.
4.6/1 The Boy Who Saved Cleveland Giblin, James Cross. During a malaria epidemic in late eighteenth-century Cleveland, Ohio, ten-year-old Seth Doan surprises his family, his neighbors, and himself by having the strength to carry and grind enough corn to feed everyone.
4.5/6 Cabin on Trouble Creek Van Leeuwen, Jean. In 1803 in Ohio, two young brothers are left to finish the log cabin and guard the land while their father goes back to Pennsylvania to fetch their mother and younger siblings.
6.0/8 Caddie Woodlawn Brink, Carol Ryrie. The adventures of an eleven-year-old tomboy growing up on the Wisconsin frontier in the mid-nineteenth century.
3.9/1 Courage of Sarah Noble Dalgliesh, Alice. An eight-year-old girl finds courage to go alone with her father to build a new home in the Connecticut wilderness, and to stay with the Indians when her father goes back to bring the rest of the family.
5.5/7 Crooked River Pearsall, Shelley. When twelve-year old Rebecca Carter's father brings a Native American accused of murder into their 1812 Ohio settlement town, Rebecca, witnessing the town's reaction to the Indian, struggles with the idea that an innocent man may be convicted and sentenced to death.
5.3/3 Dear Levi: Letters from the Overland Trail Woodruff, Elvira. Twelve-year-old Austin Ives writes letters to his younger brother describing his three-thousand-mile journey from their home in Pennsylvania to Oregon in 1851.
5.5/7 Gentleman, Outlaw and MeEli - Hahn, Mary Downing. Desperate to escape cruel relatives who've made her a servant and a scapegoat since her mother died, twelve-year-old Eliza Yates goes on the run. Disguised as a boy named Eli, she comes across a young man named Calvin Featherbone, a charming con-man who calls himself "The Gentleman Outlaw."
3.8/1 Good, the Bad, and the Goofy Scieszka, Jon. The Time Warp Trio find themselves in the Wild West of yesteryear, rubbing elbows with cowboys and Indians.
5.2/7 Great Brain Fitzgerald, John D. The exploits of the Great Brain of Adenville, Utah are described by his younger brother, frequently the victim of the Great Brain's schemes for gaining prestige or money.
4.4/10 Hattie Big Sky Larson, Kirby. After inheriting her uncle's homesteading claim in Montana, sixteen-year-old orphan Hattie Brooks travels from Iowa in 1917 to make a home for herself and encounters some unexpected problems related to the war being fought in Europe. Alone in the world, teen-aged Hattie is driven to prove up on her uncle's homesteading claim. For years, sixteen-year-old Hattie's been shuttled between relatives. Tired of being Hattie Here-and-There, she courageously leaves Iowa to prove up on her late uncle's homestead claim near Vida, Montana. With a stubborn stick-to-itiveness, Hattie faces frost, drought and blizzards. Despite many hardships, Hattie forges ahead, sharing her adventures with her friends--especially Charlie, fighting in France--through letters and articles for her hometown paper. Her backbreaking quest for a home is lightened by her neighbors, the Muellers. But she feels threatened by pressure to be a "Loyal" American, forbidding friendships with folks of German descent. Despite everything, Hattie's determined to stay until a tragedy causes her to discover the true meaning of home.
4.4/8 I Am Rggina Keehn, Sally M. 10-year-old Regina is kidnapped by Allegheny Indians, who kill her father and brother. She begins to agjust ot her new life as an Indian, but she can never forget her mother, and wonders if they will ever meet again.
4.7/5 In Care of CassieTucker Ruckman, Ivy. When her teenage cousin moves in with her family on their Nebraska farm in 1899, eleven-year-old Cassie learns a lot, incuding the meaning of "heathen" and "bigot."
.3/5 Jim Dandy Irwin, Hadley. Living after the Civil War on a Kansas homestead with a stern step-father, thirteen-year-old Caleb raises a beloved colt and becomes involved in General Custer's raids on the Cheyenne.
4.6/7 Journey to Nowhere Auch, Mary Jane. In 1815, while traveling by covered wagon to the wilderness of western New York, Mem is separated from her family.
5.8/6 Legend of Bass Reeves Paulsen, Gary. Born into slavery, Bass Reeves became the most successful US Marshal of the Wild West. Many "heroic lawmen" of the Wild West, familiar to us through television and film, were actually violent scoundrels and outlaws themselves. But of all the sheriffs of the frontier, one man stands out as a true hero: Bass Reeves.
5.0/5 Legend of Jimmy Spoon Gregory, Kristiana. This book portrays the adventures of a young white boy living among the Shoshoni Indians during the early frontier days.
5.6/6 Line in the Sand: The Alamo Diary of Lucinda Lawrence Garland, Sherry. In the diary she receives for her thirteenth birthday in 1835, Lucinda Lawrence describes the hardships her family and other residents of the "Texas colonies" endure when they decide to face the Mexicans in a fight for their freedom.
5.1/11 Misadventures of Maude March Culoumbis, Audrey. After the death of the stern aunt who raised them since they were orphaned, eleven-year-old Sallie and her fifteen-year-old sister escape their self-serving guardians and begin an adventure resembling those in the dime novels Sallie loves to read.
4.7/5 My Daniel Conrad, Pam. A grandmother tells stories of her brother's historical quest for dinosaur bones on their Nebraska farm.
5.4/6 Once on This Island Whelan, Gloria. Twelve-year-old Mary and her older brother and sister tend the family farm on Michigan's Mackinac Island while their father is away fighting the British in the War of 1812.
5.3/5 Prairie Songs Conrad, Pam. Louisa's life on the Nebraska prairie is altered by the arrival of a new doctor and his beautiful, tragically frail wife.
4.4/5 Red Dog Wallace, Bill. In the Wyoming mountains in the 1860's, twelve-year-old Adam finds his courage put to the test when he is left in charge of the household.
3.4/1 Sarah, Plain and Tall MacLachlan, Patricia. When their father invites a mail-order bride to come to live with them in their prairie home, Caleb and Anna are captivated by her and hope that she will stay.
3.7/7 Second Bend in the River Rinaldi, Ann. In 1798 Rebecca, a young settler in the Ohio territory, meets the Shawnee called Tecumseh and later develops a deep friendship with him.
4.9/5 Sign of the Beaver Speare, Elizabeth George. Left alone to guard the family's wilderness home in eighteenth-century Maine, a boy is hard-pressed to survive until local Indians teach him their skills.
3.2/1 Skylark MacLachlan, Patricia. Part of the Sarah, Plain and Tall series. From the beginning when Caleb and Anna are captivated by their new mother, to the time in the city during the drought, and further adventures of life on the prairie.
5.6/4 Soldier Boy Burks, Brian. A boy who grew up in the slums of late nineteenth-century Chicago runs away, joins the cavalry, and fights with General Custer in the Battle of Little Bighorn.
5.7/9 Wait for Me, Watch for Me, Eula Bee Beatty, Patricia. Lewallen seeks to free himself and his younger sister from their Indian captivity.
5.0/4 Weasel DeFelice, Cynthia. Weasel is a man the government has sent to drive off the Indians. Weasel has his own ideas about removal...Now that the Shawnees are dead or have left, Weasel has turned on the settlers. He hunts by night and sleeps by day, and he kills for the sport of it.
5.2/6 West to a Land of Plenty: The Diary of Teresa Angelino Viscardi Murphy, Jim. While traveling in 1883 with her Italian-American family (including a meddlesome little sister) and other immigrant pioneers to a utopian community in Idaho, fourteen-year-old Teresa keeps a diary of her experiences along the way.
4.5/4 Worth LaFaye, A. After breaking his leg, eleven-year-old Nate feels useless because he cannot work on the family farm in nineteenth-century Nebraska, so when his father brings home an orphan boy to help with the chores, Nate feels even worse.