Some may have said: Theodore (Teddy) Roosevelt, Thomas Edison, Emily Dickinson, Mark Twain, William Randolph Hearst, or maybe Susan B. Anthony. Those are good guesses. The most famous American going into the 20th century was: William F. (Buffalo Bill) Cody. Question: How was a boy born in 1846 to a little-known family in the middle…
Poplar trees are common in North America. Many times they are called cottonwood trees because they shed fluffy white “cotton” in spring. The “cotton” contains seeds that are picked up by the wind and carried to new places to germinate and grow. Poplar in Spanish is: Alamo. A grove of several poplar trees is: Los…
In the early 1800s, the American West was still very wild and unknown. Native American tribes still prospered and lived peacefully in this area. Two tribes were prominent in the Great Basin region…the Paiute and the Shoshone. This part of America became the states we now call Nevada, Utah, and Idaho. In 1820, a boy…
