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What is a ghost town? Why do we call the Old West wild? What are cowboys? Who was Billy the Kid? Find out the answers to these questions and more as Jack and Annie track the facts about the American West.

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Main Authors:	Osborne, Mary Pope (Author), Boyce, Natalie Pope (Author)
Other Authors:	Mones, Isidre (Illustrator)
Format:	Books Print Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Random House, [2018]
Series:	Magic tree house fact tracker ; 10.
Subjects:	West (U.S.) > History > Juvenile nonfiction. Frontier and pioneer life > Juvenile nonfiction. Ghost towns > West (U.S.) > Juvenile nonfiction.
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Summary:	What is a ghost town? Why do we call the Old West wild? What are cowboys? Who was Billy the Kid? Find out the answers to these questions and more as Jack and Annie track the facts about the American West. Jack and Annie learn more about the Wild West, including what a ghost town is, who Billy the Kid is, and why we call the Old West wild.
Item Description:	"A nonfiction companion to Magic tree house #10: Ghost town at sundown." "A Stepping Stone book."
Physical Description:	123 pages : illustrations, map ; 20 cm
Bibliography:	Includes bibliographical references (page 118) and index.
ISBN:	9781101936467 1101936460 9781101936450 1101936452 9781544401904 1544401906
Author Notes:	Mary Pope Osborne was born in Fort Sill, Oklahoma on May 20, 1949. She grew up in a military family, and by the time she was 15 she had lived in Oklahoma, Austria, Florida, and four different army posts in Virginia and North Carolina. She attended the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill where she majored in religion. After graduation, she traveled around Europe and Asia. Before becoming an author, she worked as a window dresser, a medical assistant, a Russian travel consultant, a waitress, an acting teacher, a bartender, and an assistant editor for a children's magazine. Her first book, Run, Run as Fast as You Can, was published in 1982. She is the author of the Magic Tree House series and the Merlin Missions series. Her husband, actor Will Osborne, helps her write the nonfiction companion series, Magic Tree House Research Guides. Her other books include The Deadly Power of Medusa, Jason and the Argonauts, Haunted Waters, and Moonhorse. (Bowker Author Biography)