Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
4.9
Points
0.5
Fiction/Nonfiction
Nonfiction
Word Count
3059
Points per Word
0.000163
Page Count
32
Points per Page
0.015625
Description
The Civil War is over, and settlers are moving west across the Great Plains to farm and hunt. Towns begin to spring up, but they are dangerous places to live: the settlers are violent, and the Plains Indians are angry that their lands have been invaded.