Frontier Roots Toolkit

• From the Grave: A Roadside Guide to Colorado’s Pioneer Cemeteries by Linda Wommack (Caxton Press)

• Frontier House by Simon Shaw with Linda Peavy and Ursula Smith (Pocket Books)

• The Far West and the Great Plains in Transition 1859-1900 by Rodman Paul and Martin Ridge (University of Oklahoma Press)

• Feels Like Far: A Rancher’s Life on the Great Plains by Linda Hasselstrom (Mariner Books)

• The American West by Dee Brown (Touchstone Books)

• Battles and Skirmishes of the Great Sioux War, 1876-1877: The Military View edited by Jerome A. Greene (University of Oklahoma Press)

• Kansas and the Homestead Act, 1862-1905 by Lawrence Bacon (Ayer Co.)

• All That Glitters: Class, Conflict, and Community in Cripple Creek by Elizabeth Jameson (University of Illinois Press)

• Land in Her Own Name: Women As Homesteaders in North Dakota by H. Elaine Lindgren (University of Oklahoma Press)

• The Women’s West by Susan Armitage (University of Oklahoma Press)

• Writing the Range: Race, Class, and Culture in the Women’s West edited by Elizabeth Jameson and Susan Armitage (University of Oklahoma Press)

• Kansas Territorial Settlers of 1860 Who Were Born in Tennessee, Virginia, North Carolina and South Carolina by Clara Hamlett Robertson (Clearfield Co.)

• Continuing Your Genealogical Research in Minnesota by Marilyn Lind (Linden Tree)

• Tracing Your Dakota Roots: A Guide to Genealogical Research in the Dakotas by Cathy A. Langemo and Jo Ann B. Winistorfer (Dakota Roots)

• Custer, Come At Once! The Fort Hays Years of George and Elizabeth Custer, 1867-1870 by Blaine Burkey (Thomas More Prep, out of print)

• Indian Raids in Lincoln County, Kansas, 1864 and 7869I by C. Bernhardt (The Lincoln Sentinel Print, out of print)

• Beyond the Far Ridge: Pioneering in the Rocky Mountain High Country by Edward Mark McGough (High Plains Press)

• Little House on the Prairie by Laura Ingalls Wilder (HarperCollins Children’s Books)

• The Gold Rush Widows of Little Falls by Linda Peavy and Ursula Smith (Minnesota Historical Press)