The Great Land Rush

by Sally Senzell Isaacs

Book Overview

Discover why many thousands of people in the East left their homes, jobs, relatives, and friends in the 1890s and headed west. Learn what it was like to join one of the great runs to claim land in Indian Territory. Find out how the U.S. government broke its promises to the American Indians. See and how settlers in the West brought great hardship, heartache, and diseases to the American Indians. This book describes in detail the lives of ordinary people...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1403425051
• ISBN13: 9781403425058
• Release Date: September 2003
• Publisher: Heinemann Educational Books
• Length: 32 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 8.7" x 11.3"
• Age Range: 9 to 12 years
• Grade Range: Grades 4 to 7