Stevens Memorial Library (North Andover)

Was there really a gunfight at the O.K. Corral?, and other questions about the Wild West, Ann Kerns ; illustrations by Colin W. Thompson

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 39) and index

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non fiction

Was there really a gunfight at the O.K. Corral?

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Ann Kerns ; illustrations by Colin W. Thompson

Is that a fact

and other questions about the Wild West

Discusses the facts and myths about life in the nineteenth century American West, including if cowboys wore large hats, if stagecoaches were robbed, and if Calamity Jane was a real person

Introduction -- Did villains in the Wild West really tie their victims to railroad tracks? -- Was there really a gunfight at the OK Corral? -- Did thousands of people rush to California when gold was discovered there? -- Did most pioneers live on farms miles away from their neighbors? -- Did kids really go to school in one-room schoolhouses? -- Were horses the most common animal used in the settlement of the West? -- Did cowboys really wear big hats, chaps, and boots? -- Did Native American chiefs wear feather headdresses? -- Did swarms of grasshoppers attack pioneer farms? -- Did stagecoaches really get robbed and attacked on their way West? -- Did workers really drive in a golden spike to finish the transcontinental railroad? -- Were most railroad workers in the West Chinese? -- Was Calamity Jane a real person? -- Did people called buffalo soldiers really fight on the Western Frontier (and if so, who were they)? -- Did Native Americans use every part of the buffalo they hunted? -- Were there really haunted ghost towns in the West? -- Did people really shout "Remember the Alamo" at a famous battle in the West? -- Glossary -- Selected bibliography -- Further reading -- Index

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