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Gregory Proch
2 Reviews
Olson, Tod
How to Get Rich on a Texas Cattle Drive: In Which I Tell the Honest Truth About Rampaging Rustlers, Stampeding Steers, & Other Fateful Hazards on the Wild Chisholm Trail
(3)
4-6
Illustrated by
Scott Allred
&
Gregory Proch.
This latest How to Get Rich book is a fictitious first-person account of an almost-sixteen-year-old cowboy in the 1870s on his first cattle drive. The text details a stampede, conflicts with farmers and greedy ranchers, and encounters with Native Americans. Illustrations, photographs of real people, journals, maps, ledgers, and other "artifacts" enhance the you-are-there approach. An afterword helps sort truth from fiction. Reading list, websites.
Reviewer: Cyrisse Jaffee
Olson, Tod
How to Get Rich on the Oregon Trail: My Adventures Among Cows, Crooks & Heroes on the Road to Fame & Fortune
(3)
4-6
Illustrated by
Scott Allred
&
Gregory Proch.
This companion to How to Get Rich in the California Gold Rush provides an engaging and clever recounting of a trip westward during the 1850s by the fictitious William Reed. Told through illustrations, photographs, journal entries, ledgers, and other "artifacts," the you-are-there approach will help young people understand the hardships and experiences of early American pioneers. Reading list, websites. Glos.
Reviewer: Cyrisse Jaffee
2 reviews
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