Jews of the Wild West a Multicultural True Story
By Kay Miller.
Description
According to award winning author Steve Sheinkin: This book is packed with vivid paintings and great true stories about the real life adventures of Jewish pioneers in New Mexico. Teenage Jews, members of the Staab and Ilfeld families left Germany in the mid 1800s and settled in the Wild West. Julia Staab had a scary encounter with Billy the Kid. Hebrew was written in stone above a cathedral entrance. Ludwig Ilfeld landed a role in the movie, The Rattlesnake. There were rumors of a ghost at the Palace Avenue mansion. Hopi snake dancers, a horse named Maude, a President and a freed slave appe...
ISBN(s)
0615553885, 9780615553887
