Wild Bill Hickok and the Rebel Raiders (Disney's American Frontier, #10)

By Justine Korman Fontes and Ron Fontes

Book Overview

Wild Bill Hickok's courage is tested when he becomes pony express station master in Rock Creek, Nebraska and must stand up to Jack Chamber's gang of rebel raiders after they steal a pony express... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1562824937
• ISBN13: 9781562824938
• Release Date: September 1993
• Publisher: Disney Press
• Length: 80 Pages
• Weight: 0.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 6.0" x 8.2"
• Age Range: 6 to 9 years
• Grade Range: Grades 1 to 4

Customer Reviews

Good children's historical fiction

At a younger age, my son loved this tale of James Hickok, the pony express stationmaster of Rock Creek, Nebraska. Based on Hickok's true history, this 74 page novel includes a two page epilogue giving a synopsis of Hickok's life--his 1837 birth, 1856 journey to Kansas, role in the antislavery Free State Army, work as a Sante Fe and Oregon trails stage coach driver and his 1861 assignment to the Nebraska pony express office. The book exposes kids to the introduction of new 19th century technologies like the telegraph wire, and of course the history of the civil War. It's a great adventure with a big dollop of history thrown in.