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Business visionary and bestselling author David Weinberger shows how the digital revolution is radically changing the way we make sense of our lives.
Human beings are information omnivores: we are constantly collecting, labeling, and organizing data. But today, the shift from the physical to the digital is mixing, burning, and ripping our lives apart. In the past, everything had its one place, the physical world demanded it, but now everything has...
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From the early 1800s to the end of his life in 1917, Buffalo Bill Cody was as famous as anyone could be. Annie Oakley was his most celebrated protegee, the "slip of a girl" from Ohio who could (and did) outshoot anybody to become the most celebrated starof Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show.In this sweeping dual biography, Larry McMurtry explores the lives, the legends, and above all the truth about two larger-than-life American figures. With his Wild...
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It was in Brooklyn, New York, in 1883 that William F. Cody-known across the land as Buffalo Bill-conceived of his Wild West show, an "equestrian extravaganza" featuring cowboys and Indians. It was a great success, and for four months in 1885 the Lakota chief Sitting Bull appeared in the show. Blood Brothers tells the story of these two iconic figures through their brief but important collaboration, in a compelling narrative that reads like a novel.
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American Girl history mysteries volume 2
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IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 4
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English
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In 1860, eleven-year-old Annie, who lives at the Red Buttes Pony Express station in the Nebraska Territory, asks Pony Express rider Billy Cody to help her find the person responsible for sabatoging her favorite pony Magpie.
8) Fair weather
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 4
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English
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In 1893, thirteen-year-old Rosie and members of her family travel from their Illinois farm to Chicago to visit Aunt Euterpe and attend the World's Columbian Exposition which, along with an encounter with Buffalo Bill and Lillian Russell, turns out to be a life-changing experience for everyone.
13) Buffalo Bill
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F. Watts
Pub. Date
c1991
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English
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Examines the life and times of the frontiersman whose many careers included Pony Express rider, Indian fighter, scout, and star of his own Wild West Show.
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Enslow Publishers
Pub. Date
c1998
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 3
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English
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Traces the life of the legendary frontiersman, from his childhood in the Kansas Territory, through his years of adventure as military scout, Pony Express rider, and buffalo hunter, to his creation of his Wild West Show.
17) Buffalo Bill
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Creative Education
Pub. Date
c2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7 - AR Pts: 1
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English