"During the 1800s, many settlers moved westward across North America to seek their fortunes as farmers, ranchers, and miners. In the Wild West, there were few t

This is a portrait of pioneer and American Indian children in the 19th-century West. It covers both the lives of settlers, crossing America in covered wagons an

Though he only lived to the age of twenty-one, Billy the Kid had made quite a name for himself by the time of his death. A ruthless outlaw, the Kid stole cattle

Profiles the outlaw who, with his brother Frank, led a gang of bank and train robbers from the late 1860's through the 1870's.

Generations of Americans have developed an image of violence in the “Wild West” through books and films. But what conditions really resulted in violence on