Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Lower Grades (LG K-3)
Book Level
4.6
Points
0.5
Fiction/Nonfiction
Nonfiction
Word Count
1635
Points per Word
0.000306
Page Count
45
Points per Page
0.011111
Series
New True Books
Description
Discusses the reasons people had for going to live in newly discovered or newly settled lands as the American West of the nineteenth century, the hardships they faced, and their influence on history.