Which Way To The Wild West?: Everything Your Schoolbooks Didn’t Tell You About America’s Westward Expansion by Steve Sheinkin
Reviewed by BridgetRatings
Content Ratings based on a 0-5 scale where
0 = no objectionable content and
5 = an excessive or disturbing level of content
LANGUAGE
VIOLENCE
SEXUAL CONTENT
ADULT THEMES
Illustrator: Tim Robinson
Ratings Explanation
Violence: The Alamo, a massacre of many various Indian tribes and buffalo. Many Chinese immigrant deaths accompanied the railroad expansion through the Sierra Nevada Mountain Range.
Adult Themes: The advent of the Indian Reservation.
Synopsis
An entertaining, captivating and completely digestible book on America’s Westward Expansion. The search for gold and land led to a hard scrabble rush for wealth. There were many casualties that accompanied the American Westward Expansion.
Sheinkin, formerly a textbook writer, collected stories: good, funny, amazing, inspiring, surprising, and disgustingly true stories. He has succeeded in writing an entertaining, captivating and completely digestible story of America’s Westward Expansion. I loved this book! I really enjoyed the last chapter, “What Ever Happened to….?”
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