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100 1 $aKerns, Ann,$d1959-
245 10 $aWas there really a gunfight at the O.K. Corral? :$band other questions about the Wild West /$cAnn Kerns ; illustrations by Colin W. Thompson.
260 $aMinneapolis :$bLerner Publiction Co.,$c℗♭2011.
300 $a40 pages :$billustrations (some color) ;$c26 cm.
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490 1 $aIs that a fact?
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (page 39) and index.
505 0 $aIntroduction -- Did villains in the Wild West really tie their victims to railroad tracks? -- Was there really a gunfight at the OK Corral? -- Did thousands of people rush to California when gold was discovered there? -- Did most pioneers live on farms miles away from their neighbors? -- Did kids really go to school in one-room schoolhouses? -- Were horses the most common animal used in the settlement of the West? -- Did cowboys really wear big hats, chaps, and boots? -- Did Native American chiefs wear feather headdresses? -- Did swarms of grasshoppers attack pioneer farms? -- Did stagecoaches really get robbed and attacked on their way West? -- Did workers really drive in a golden spike to finish the transcontinental railroad? -- Were most railroad workers in the West Chinese? -- Was Calamity Jane a real person? -- Did people called buffalo soldiers really fight on the Western Frontier (and if so, who were they)? -- Did Native Americans use every part of the buffalo they hunted? -- Were there really haunted ghost towns in the West? -- Did people really shout "Remember the Alamo" at a famous battle in the West? -- Glossary -- Selected bibliography -- Further reading -- Index.
520 $aDiscusses the facts and myths about life in the nineteenth century American West, including if cowboys wore large hats, if stagecoaches were robbed, and if Calamity Jane was a real person.
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