Cowboys and Cattle Drives Dyslexia Series

About this curriculum

The development of the cattle industry was essential to the growth of the early American West, and the stories in this series follow the early cowboys who forged trails across the wilderness as they drove great herds of cattle to market. A Special Series of Books for Children Who Struggle to Read The cowboy is a romantic figure of the great American West, known for his quiet stoicism and the tough exterior that belied a soft heart when it came to his horse and the cows in his charge. But those are stories of archetypes and not of actual people. The Cowboys and Cattle Drives series of books introduces children to some of the real people who influenced the development of the cowboy narrative as we know it today. An essential part of the western economy was the development of the cattle industry, and cowboys played the integral part of getting herds to the markets where they were needed. Men like Charlie Goodnight and James Cook drove cattle herds huge distances across the wilderness, forging trails and learning their way as they traveled. At the end of the trail, towns sprang up, lawless and rowdy as the country worked toward a proper set of laws to govern everyone…