The Great Land Rush (American Adventure (Heinemann Hardcover))

Discover why many thousands of people in the East left their homes, jobs, relatives, and friends in the 1890s and headed west. Learn what it was like to join one of the great runs to claim land in Indian Territory. Find out how the U.S. government broke its promises to the American Indians. See and how settlers in the West brought great hardship, heartache, and diseases to the American Indians. This book describes in detail the lives of ordinary people in the United States of America who went in search of free land west of the Mississippi River. Each book in the series uses reconstruction illustrations and photographs along with clear text and fact boxes to bring the story of our nation to life.Sally Senzell Isaacs is the author of 'The Great Land Rush (American Adventure (Heinemann Hardcover))', published 2003 under ISBN 9781403425058 and ISBN 1403425051.