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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.1 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
A true story expanded from Krakauer's article about a young man who starved to death in Denali National Park in Alaska. In a compelling book that evokes the writings of Thoreau, Muir, and Jack London, Krakauer recounts the haunting and tragic mystery of 22-year-old Chris McCandless who disappeared in April 1992 into the Alaskan wilderness in search of a raw, transcendent experience. His emaciated corpse was discovered four months later.
Author
Series
Oklahoma western biographies volume 29
Publisher
University of Oklahoma Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Before Calamity Jane became a legend, she was Martha Canary, orphaned when she was only eleven years old. From a young age she traveled fearlessly, worked with men, smoked, chewed tobacco, and drank. By the time she arrived in the boomtown of Deadwood, South Dakota, in 1876, she had become Calamity Jane, and the real Martha Canary had disappeared under a landslide of purple prose. Calamity became a hostess and dancer in Deadwood’s saloons and theaters....
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"For a century Butch Cassidy has been the subject of legends about his life and death, spawning a small industry of mythmakers and a major Hollywood film. Charles Leerhsen sorts out fact from fiction to find the real Butch Cassidy, who is far more complicated and fascinating than legend has it"--
19) Belle Starr
Author
Publisher
Enslow Publishers
Pub. Date
c2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"Learn about Belle Starr, the 'Bandit Queen' of the Wild West. Reader will discover the facts and the legends of this exciting outlaw"--Provided by publisher.
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