Following the Frontier West Dyslexia Series

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This series contains interesting, amusing, and even touching stories of some of the more colorful characters who helped to open the unknown lands of America to the settlers who were working their way west. A Special Series of Books for Children Who Struggle to Read When most people think about the early American frontier, they’re likely to imagine the eastern edge of the vast prairies that made up the Great Plains, which stretched hundreds of miles from the Mississippi River to the Rocky Mountains. Or perhaps they think of the frontier as beginning at the Rocky Mountains themselves, which were so difficult for early settlers to cross. But the truth is that the frontier in America was an ever-shifting, ever-moving boundary that began, when the country was first discovered by European explorers, in the East at the Appalachian Mountains. From there it pushed west as people made their arduous way over those mountains and into the lands beyond them. Each geographic region posed its own challenges, and it was literally centuries before white settlers built roads and est…