An embodiment of the Wild West, Billy Cody drove cattle by age eleven, rode for the Pony Express, and fought for Kansas to be a free state. And those were just a few of his youthful exploits. Note on terminology. Author’s note. Annotated list of resources about Buffalo Bill and his times. Source notes. Bibliography. Index. Black-and-white photographs and reproductions of historical illustrations, documents, and maps.
Title alpha The Boy Who Became Buffalo Bill: Growing Up Billy Cody in Bleeding Kansas
Level Nonfiction Middle Plus
Pages Count 241
Genre Nonfiction
Topics William Frederick "Buffalo Bill" Cody (1846-1917). Biography. The American West. Westward expansion. Abolition. Slavery. Native Americans. Bleeding Kansas (1854-1861). Nineteenth-century Kansas history. Missouri. Border wars. Nineteenth-century U.S. history. The American Civil War (1861-1865). Buffalo Bill's Wild West show.
SRC Level 8.600000
SRC Points 10.000000
Lexile 1070L
JLG Span Spring
Language English
Rights type Print
Publication date 2015-11-02
JLG Release Date Apr 2016
Minimum grade 5
Maximum grade 8
Reading level Middle
Format Print
Nonfiction Middle Plus (Grades 5-8)
Nonfiction Middle Plus
Nonfiction Middle Plus (Grades 5-8)
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