Wild West Days: Discover the Past with Fun Projects, Games, Activities, and Recipes [Paperback]

David C. King (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0471239194 | ISBN-13: 978-0471239192 | Publication Date: July 10, 1998 | Edition: 1

Dozens of fun, hands-on projects and activities from frontier days.

Join twelve-year-old Tom, his eleven-year-old sister, Amy, and their little brother, Tad, in Wyoming Territory in 1878. Share the fun, adventure, and hard work of daily life in the Wild West. You'll discover exciting games, make toys and crafts, and perform everyday activities just like Tom, Amy, and Tad.

Make your own ranch-style scrambled eggs and cook up a batch of delicious sourdough flapjacks. Paint an Acoma bowl, build a model pueblo, make a pioneer cap to wear, or weave a basket from a few simple materials. You can twist together a lariat to wear as a belt, or practice knot tying--that is, if you have time after the mustang-and-cowboys board game or the party pi?ata project.

Wild West Days is filled with interesting historical information and fun facts about growing up in days gone by. Discover how different--and how similar--life was for American kids in history.

Watch for Civil War Days, the next exciting book in the American Kids in History series!

Also available: Pioneer Days and Colonial Days.

For children ages 8 to 12

Editorial Reviews

From the Publisher

Now the kids of today can walk in the boots of wranglers of the Wild West. This new activity-packed addition to the American Kids in History Series transports readers to a cattle ranch near Cheyenne, deep in the Wyoming territory of the 1870s. They'll join 12-year-old Tom as he goes on his first cattle drive, and 11-year-old Amy as she helps the bronco busters tame the horses. Learning history has never been so hands-on--or so much fun!

From the Back Cover

Dozens of fun, hands-on projects and activities from frontier days.

Join twelve-year-old Tom, his eleven-year-old sister, Amy, and their little brother, Tad, in Wyoming Territory in 1878. Share the fun, adventure, and hard work of daily life in the Wild West. You'll discover exciting games, make toys and crafts, and perform everyday activities just like Tom, Amy, and Tad.

Make your own ranch-style scrambled eggs and cook up a batch of delicious sourdough flapjacks. Paint an Acoma bowl, build a model pueblo, make a pioneer cap to wear, or weave a basket from a few simple materials. You can twist together a lariat to wear as a belt, or practice knot tying—that is, if you have time after the mustang-and-cowboys board game or the party pi?ata project.

Wild West Days is filled with interesting historical information and fun facts about growing up in days gone by. Discover how different—and how similar—life was for American kids in history.

Watch for Civil War Days, the next exciting book in the American Kids in History^TM series!

Also available: Pioneer Days and Colonial Days.

For children ages 8 to 12

See all Editorial Reviews

Product Details

• Reading level: Ages 8 and up
  
• Paperback: 128 pages
• Publisher: Wiley; 1 edition (July 10, 1998)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0471239194
• ISBN-13: 978-0471239192
• Product Dimensions: 10.6 x 8.4 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 10.4 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,123,798 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars Great teacher resource!, March 5, 2011

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Kara Markoya (Dover, Delaware) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Wild West Days: Discover the Past with Fun Projects, Games, Activities, and Recipes (Paperback)

I am teaching about cowboys and am delighted to find so many activities that I can easily use in my classroom. There are toys and games to make as well as recipes. My boys at home also have jumped in to try some of the suggestions. There is a decent amount of information to go along with the activities as well.

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2.0 out of 5 stars Not as helpful as I'd hoped, March 18, 2007

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Dana Winn "a busy mom" (Omaha, NE USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Wild West Days: Discover the Past with Fun Projects, Games, Activities, and Recipes (Paperback)

Planning for a Wild West day camp for this summer - had high hopes for ideas for games, crafts etc - not as helpful for active games etc. for energetic boys as I'd hoped. But, a good resource about the change of seasons during the old west.