Wild West Unit Study

Biographies:

Primary (1-3grd)

  • Mr. Blue Jeans: A Story about Levi Strauss by Maryann Weidt
  • Picture Book of Sitting Bull by David Adler
  • Shooting Star: Annie Oakley the Legend by Debbie Dadley
  • Little Sure Shot: the Story of Annie Oakley by Stephanie Spinner
  • Buffalo Bill by Ingri and Edgar d'Aulaire

Elementary (4-6grd)

  • Annie Oakley: Wild West Sharpshooter by Elaine Landau
  • Annie Oakley (Childhood of American Series)
  • Women of the Wild West by Ruth Pelz
  • Mustang: Wild Spirit of the West by Marguerite Henry
  • Geronimo: Wolf of the Warpath by Ralph Moody
  • Wyatt Earp: US Marshall by Stewart Holbrook
  • A Boy called Slow: the true Story of Sitting Bull by Joseph Bruchac

Upper Elementary (7-9grd)

  • Sitting Bull and His World by Albert Marrin
  • Jack London: a writer's adventurous life by Elaine Lisandrelli

Non-Fiction:

  • The Mustang by Alvin Silverstein
  • Mustangs: Wild Horses of the America West by Jay Featherly
  • The Trail of Tears by Conrad Stein
  • The Trail of Tears by Joseph Bruchac
  • The Pony Express by Peter Anderson
  • Story of Gold at Sutter's Mill by Conrad Stein
  • Transcontinental Railroad by Peter Anderson
  • The Transcontinental Railroad in American History by Conrad Stein
  • Cowboys of the Wild West by Russell Freedman
  • Children of the Wild West by Russell Freedman

Fiction:

  • Little House on the Prairies Series by Laura Ingall Wilder
  • Longwalkers Journey by Beatrice Harrell
  • Death Comes for the Archbishop by Willa Cather
  • Wait For Me, Watch For Me Eula Bee by Patricia Beatty
  • Bonanza Girl by Patricia Beatty
  • White Fang by Jack London
  • Sea Wolf by Jack London
  • The Call of the Wild by Jack London
  • Moccasin Trial by Eloise McGraw

Other Picture Books:

  • Going to Town by Laura Ingall Wilder
  • Summer Time in the Big Woods by Laura Ingall Wilder
  • A Little House Birthday by Laura Ingall Wilder
  • Going West by Laura Ingall Wilder
  • Winter on the Farm by Laura Ingall Wilder
  • Winter Days in the Big Woods by Laura Ingall Wilder
  • Dance at Grandpa's by Laura Ingall Wilder

Fine Arts:

  • Frontier America: art and treasures of the Old West by Paul Fees
  • The Art of the Plains Indians by Shirley Glubok

Geography:

  • Study Wisconsin
  • Map out The Trail of Tears

Arts and Crafts:

Poetry:

Home Economics:

Videos:

  • The Real American Cowboy - United Streaming
  • Dances with Wolves
  • The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean
  • Annie Get Your Gun
  • Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kids
  • Sitting Bull
  • Showdown at Little Big Horn
  • Union Pacifics Feather River Route
  • Buffalo Bill and the Indians

Websites:

Field Trips:

Enrichment Activities:

  • Tour Maple Factory
  • Make Soap
  • Churn Butter
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