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The cities along the eastern coast of the United States often had various venues for providing shows and other forms of entertainment, including the theater, museums, and occasionally a circus, but the pioneers farther west had access to none of this. So acting companies like the Drake Players took their shows on the road to bring entertainment to the people. But the roads didn’t go far, and soon the actors had to trade their wagons for a boat. They floated downriver, bringing plays to the towns and settlements that had sprung up along the river systems of America. As their popularity grew, so grew the boats, both in sophistication and in the quality of the entertainment. The Chapman showboat was the first boat to offer plays directly on the boat itself. Doc Spaulding’s Floating Palace, pushed both up and down the rivers by its own steamboat, brought an entire circus to the riverside communities. Seeing a play or a show on a showboat was often the brightest day of the year for the pioneers who had forged past the edges of civilization to expand the boundaries of the United States. And then a small crack shot named Annie Oakley helped to show them what the great American West was all about.

The show people of early America were no less pioneers than the settlers who scraped and scratched out a life for themselves in the country’s great wilderness, and this series brings to the forefront their importance in the expansion not just of culture but of an emerging entertainment industry that was blooming across the nation.

These books are printed in a special dyslexia-friendly font that makes them easier for some children with visual processing problems to read. A special feature of the books is that each two-page spread contains a QR code that links to audio of the book being narrated. Children can listen and follow along to help them learn the words that they are seeing.

The Pioneer Show People Dyslexia Series offers a way for children with reading difficulties to enjoy reading and American history in a rare and wonderfully accessible combination that they will treasure for years to come.

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By the middle of the 19th century, showboats were a common sight on many of America’s great rivers. But Doc Spaulding wasn’t satisfied with bringing ordinary performances to the riverside settlements. He wanted to bring an entire circus!

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A traveling company of actors known as the Drake Players went, first by wagon and then by boat, across the frontier, performing plays and bringing an evening of fun to the people along the way. They were the first actors to bring the theater to the American frontier.

These books are printed in a special dyslexia-friendly font that makes them easier for some children with visual processing problems to read. A special feature of the books is that each two-page spread contains a QR code that links to audio of the book being narrated. Children can listen and follow along to help them learn the words that they are seeing.

Titles in Series:

The Drake Players Go West
The Chapman Showboat
Doc Spaulding and the Floating Palace
Annie Oakley and the Wild West 

Pioneer Show People (Dyslexia Series) Set 

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The work was not easy, nor was it without problems. Someone had to invent the first locomotive. Someone had to make it work well. Someone had to figure out how to keep passengers from being choked by smoke and burned by falling sparks from the locomotive’s smokestack. Someone had to recognize that the entire system of trains and tracks needed to be standardized so that a train in New York could travel on a track in Boston. Someone had to finance the building of more tracks, cut through prairies and forests, bore through mountains, build bridges over valleys and rivers. None of it was easy. In fact, much of it was dangerous.

The iron horses changed fundamentally how united the people of the United States actually felt, and it also radically revolutionized the economies of not just the many small cities along the railroad but also the country as a whole. But men had to make it work, and the books in this series tell those stories.

These books are printed in a special dyslexia-friendly font that makes them easier for some children with visual processing problems to read. A special feature of the books is that each two-page spread contains a QR code that links to audio of the book being narrated. Children can listen and follow along to help them learn the words that they are seeing.

The Men on Iron Horses Dyslexia Series offers a way for children with reading difficulties to enjoy reading and American history in a rare and wonderfully accessible combination that they will treasure for years to come.

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Each man and his crew were determined to get as far as they could as fast as they could. It was a race, and when it was over, the railroad would stretch across the entire United States for the first time ever.

These books are printed in a special dyslexia-friendly font that makes them easier for some children with visual processing problems to read. A special feature of the books is that each two-page spread contains a QR code that links to audio of the book being narrated. Children can listen and follow along to help them learn the words that they are seeing.

Titles in Series:

Peter Cooper’s Horse and a Half 
William Brown Rides the Dewitt Clinton 
Captain Ayres and the Jumping Stick
William Ogden’s Iron Pioneer
Ad Clark’s Record Run to the Pony Express
General Dodge and Charlie Crocker Meet in the Middle 

Men on Iron Horses (Dyslexia Series) Set

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There was a delay, and the train waiting at Hannibal, Missouri, to carry the mail across the state to St. Joseph, where the Pony Express rider waited, couldn’t start on time. The train’s engineer, Ad Clark, had already been told to try to set a speed record, but now he’d have to do better than ever. Just how fast could he push his locomotive?

These books are printed in a special dyslexia-friendly font that makes them easier for some children with visual processing problems to read. A special feature of the books is that each two-page spread contains a QR code that links to audio of the book being narrated. Children can listen and follow along to help them learn the words that they are seeing.

Titles in Series:

Peter Cooper’s Horse and a Half 
William Brown Rides the Dewitt Clinton 
Captain Ayres and the Jumping Stick
William Ogden’s Iron Pioneer
Ad Clark’s Record Run to the Pony Express
General Dodge and Charlie Crocker Meet in the Middle 

Men on Iron Horses (Dyslexia Series) Set

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Mr. Ogden knew that the country could be crossed by rail easier than by horse or wagon, and he went ahead with his plan. It wasn’t long at all before the little locomotive proved its worth.

These books are printed in a special dyslexia-friendly font that makes them easier for some children with visual processing problems to read. A special feature of the books is that each two-page spread contains a QR code that links to audio of the book being narrated. Children can listen and follow along to help them learn the words that they are seeing.

Titles in Series:

Peter Cooper’s Horse and a Half 
William Brown Rides the Dewitt Clinton 
Captain Ayres and the Jumping Stick
William Ogden’s Iron Pioneer
Ad Clark’s Record Run to the Pony Express
General Dodge and Charlie Crocker Meet in the Middle 

Men on Iron Horses (Dyslexia Series) Set

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Captain Ayres found himself frustrated with the engineer on his train, a stubborn man name Mr. Hamil who seemed determined to have his way, no matter the cost to the train or its passengers. So Captain Ayres devised a way to work with Mr. Hamil, but he soon found out that he would have to work things out the hard way.

These books are printed in a special dyslexia-friendly font that makes them easier for some children with visual processing problems to read. A special feature of the books is that each two-page spread contains a QR code that links to audio of the book being narrated. Children can listen and follow along to help them learn the words that they are seeing.

Titles in Series:

Peter Cooper’s Horse and a Half 
William Brown Rides the Dewitt Clinton 
Captain Ayres and the Jumping Stick
William Ogden’s Iron Pioneer
Ad Clark’s Record Run to the Pony Express
General Dodge and Charlie Crocker Meet in the Middle 

Men on Iron Horses (Dyslexia Series) Set

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The first locomotives had some problems that needed to be worked out before they would become popular as passenger vehicles. An artist named William Brown took his first ride on the new train in New York, and it was one he would never forget. And because he was an artist, he made sure that no one else would forget either.

These books are printed in a special dyslexia-friendly font that makes them easier for some children with visual processing problems to read. A special feature of the books is that each two-page spread contains a QR code that links to audio of the book being narrated. Children can listen and follow along to help them learn the words that they are seeing.

Titles in Series:

Peter Cooper’s Horse and a Half 
William Brown Rides the Dewitt Clinton 
Captain Ayres and the Jumping Stick
William Ogden’s Iron Pioneer
Ad Clark’s Record Run to the Pony Express
General Dodge and Charlie Crocker Meet in the Middle 

Men on Iron Horses (Dyslexia Series) Set

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