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Silverman, Jerry

Singing Our Way West: Songs and Stories of America's Westward Expansion

88 pp. | Lerner/Millbrook | September, 1998 | Library ISBN 0-7613-0417-7 $$27.40
(3) 4-6 Twelve chapters, each ending with a folksong, cover topics such as the Cumberland Gap, the Alamo, the railroad, and "Home on the Range." Black-and-white reproductions of period maps, etchings, and paintings embellish a text that remains clear about the fact that "expansion" covered land already inhabited for countless generations. Piano accompaniments and guitar chords are provided. Bib., ind.
Reviewer: Lolly Robinson

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