Discusses the settling of the area between the Missouri River and the Rocky Mountains and the conflicting interests of the different groups involved--the Indians, cowboys, farmers, sheepherders, and railroad barons.
year: 2001
call number/section: 978, 978.02
subjects: indians of north america, wars, great plains, juvenile literature, land tenure, frontier and pioneer life, history, united states, history, 1865-, juvenile literature, great plains, social life and customs