Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
6.1
Points
1.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Nonfiction
Word Count
8896
Points per Word
0.000112
Series
American West
Description
As people moved west to settle the great open regions of the United States, many towns sprang up almost overnight. The tales of the towns in this book help to explain how frontier towns were started and why they either survived or became ghost towns.