Mustangs, six-shooters, and barbed wire :

Lyons, Grant.

Mustangs, six-shooters, and barbed wire : How the West was really won / by Grant Lyons ; illustrated by Paul Frame. - New York : J. Messner, c1981. - 96 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.

Includes index.

A brief history of the settling of the Plains, the Southwest, and the West, emphasizing the importance of horses, guns, railroads, barbed wire, and sheer hard work by men and women struggling against the land and climate.

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Frontier and pioneer life--Juvenile literature.--West (U.S.)
Frontier and pioneer life--West (U.S.)


West (U.S.)--History--Juvenile literature.
West (U.S.)--History.

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