Cowboy Sam Indians

"Cowboy Sam and the Indians" is a 128-page, color-illustrated book designed to supplement basic readers and to teach the skills of oral reading and reading comprehension. This high-interest, low-vocabulary book depicts the activities of adults and teenagers in the modern west. The book contains 409 different words, which are listed at the end of the text. The specified reading level is grade 3; the specified interest level includes grades 3 through 6. This material is specified for use with the learning disabled student and special education classes for the intermediate grades. A cassette tape, which provides a narration of the book, can be purchased separately or as part of a sight-sound set. A teacher's guide and a workbook are also available for purchase separately. "Cowboy Sam and the Indians" is 1 of 15 books in the Cowboy Sam Series. BP /CAN, 1-76.

Depicts ranch hands at work and engaged in leisure activities on the ranch.

Focusing on the northern plains and the Southwest, Iverson traces the rise and fall of individual and tribal cattle industries against the backdrop of changing federal Indian policies. He describes the Indian Bureau's inability to recognize that most nineteenth-century reservations were better suited to ranching than farming. Even though allotment and leasing stifled ranching, livestock became symbols and ranching a new means of resisting, adapting, and living - for remaining Native.