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Children of the Wild West

Children of the Wild West( )
Author: Freedman, Russell
Illustrator: Buctel, George
ISBN:978-0-89919-143-0
Publication Date:Oct 1983
Publisher:Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company
Book Format:Hardback
List Price:USD $18.00
Book Description:

Historical photographs show what life was like for pioneer and Indian children growing up in the American West during the late nineteenth century.

Book Details
Pages:112
Detailed Subjects: Juvenile Nonfiction / History / United States / State & Local
Juvenile Nonfiction / Places / United States
Social Science / Children's Studies
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):8.75 x 9.25 x 0.25 Inches
Book Weight:1.34 Pounds
Author Biography
Freedman, Russell (Author)
Russell Freedman was born in San Francisco, California on October 11, 1929. He received a bachelor's degree in English from the University of California, Berkeley in 1951. After college, he served in the U.S. Counter Intelligence Corps during the Korean War. After his military service, he became a reporter and editor with the Associated Press. In 1956, he took a position at the advertising agency J. Walter Thompson in New York, where he did publicity writing for television. In 1965, he became a full-time writer.

His first book, Teenagers Who Made History, was published in 1961. He went on to publish more than 60 nonfiction titles for young readers including Immigrant Kids, Cowboys of the Old West, Indian Chiefs, Martha Graham: A Dancer's Life, Confucius: The Golden Rule, Because They Marched: The People's Campaign for Voting Rights That Changed America, Vietnam: A History of the War, and The Sinking of the Vasa. He received the Newbery Medal for Lincoln: A Photobiography and three Newbery Honors for Eleanor Roosevelt: A Life of Discovery, The Wright Brothers: How They Invented the Airplane, and The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights. He also received the Regina Medal, the May Hill Arbuthnot Lecture Award, the Orbis Pictus Award, the Sibert Medal, a Sibert Honor, the Laura Ingalls Wilder Medal, and the National Humanities Medal. He died on March 16, 2018 at the age of 88.

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