Author: Eleanor Gates
Publisher: Good Press
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 191
Book Description
This absorbing work starts with the birth of the central character on a remote Dakota homestead during a raging storm. The family waits with growing dread for the return of the newborn girl's father, who has gone into the storm for help. The author presented a series of chronological incidents based on her upbringing on a prairie farm in the late-Nineteenth Century. It's a look at frontier life through the eyes of a child.
The Biography of a Prairie Girl
Author: Eleanor Gates
Publisher: Good Press
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 191
Book Description
This absorbing work starts with the birth of the central character on a remote Dakota homestead during a raging storm. The family waits with growing dread for the return of the newborn girl's father, who has gone into the storm for help. The author presented a series of chronological incidents based on her upbringing on a prairie farm in the late-Nineteenth Century. It's a look at frontier life through the eyes of a child.
Publisher: Good Press
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 191
Book Description
This absorbing work starts with the birth of the central character on a remote Dakota homestead during a raging storm. The family waits with growing dread for the return of the newborn girl's father, who has gone into the storm for help. The author presented a series of chronological incidents based on her upbringing on a prairie farm in the late-Nineteenth Century. It's a look at frontier life through the eyes of a child.
Prairie Lotus
Author: Linda Sue Park
Publisher: Clarion Books
ISBN: 132878150X
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
Dakota Territory, 1880. When Hanna arrives in the town of LaForge, she sees possibiltiies. Her father coupld open a shop on the main street. She could go to school, if there is a school, and even realize her dream of becoming a dressmaker--provided she can convince Papa, that is. She and Papa could make a home here. But Hanna is half-Chinese, and she knows from experience that most white people don't want neighbors who aren't white themselves. The people of LaForge have never seen an Asian person before; most are unwelcoming and unfriendly--but they don't even know her! Hannah is determined to stay in LaForge and persuade them to see byond her surface. In a setting that will be recognized by fans of Laura Ingalls Wilder's Little House books, this compelling story of resolution and persistence, told with humor, insight, and charm, offers a fresh look at a long-established view of history. -- From dust jacket.
Publisher: Clarion Books
ISBN: 132878150X
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
Dakota Territory, 1880. When Hanna arrives in the town of LaForge, she sees possibiltiies. Her father coupld open a shop on the main street. She could go to school, if there is a school, and even realize her dream of becoming a dressmaker--provided she can convince Papa, that is. She and Papa could make a home here. But Hanna is half-Chinese, and she knows from experience that most white people don't want neighbors who aren't white themselves. The people of LaForge have never seen an Asian person before; most are unwelcoming and unfriendly--but they don't even know her! Hannah is determined to stay in LaForge and persuade them to see byond her surface. In a setting that will be recognized by fans of Laura Ingalls Wilder's Little House books, this compelling story of resolution and persistence, told with humor, insight, and charm, offers a fresh look at a long-established view of history. -- From dust jacket.
Pioneer Girl
Author:
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 9780803225268
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 108
Book Description
Describes the early childhood and life of Grace Snyder, whose family owned a Nebraska homestead in the late nineteenth century and endured the hardships and dangers of the prairie.
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 9780803225268
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 108
Book Description
Describes the early childhood and life of Grace Snyder, whose family owned a Nebraska homestead in the late nineteenth century and endured the hardships and dangers of the prairie.
A Prairie Girl’s Life: The Story of The Reverend Edna Lenora Perry
Author: Edna L. Perry
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1483415651
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 277
Book Description
From Edna's childhood wearing a flour sack dress while living in a leaky barn to breaking ground in a small mid-west city, outdoor education and the ministry, this story chronicles a determined Canadian prairie pioneer through defining 20th century world events. The following excerpt is from the dedication of her street, Edna Perry Way: "If you grew up in Transcona between the 1950s and 1980s you likely will know the name Edna Perry".
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1483415651
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 277
Book Description
From Edna's childhood wearing a flour sack dress while living in a leaky barn to breaking ground in a small mid-west city, outdoor education and the ministry, this story chronicles a determined Canadian prairie pioneer through defining 20th century world events. The following excerpt is from the dedication of her street, Edna Perry Way: "If you grew up in Transcona between the 1950s and 1980s you likely will know the name Edna Perry".
Documents
Author: Boston (Mass.). School Committee
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1356
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1356
Book Description
Laura Ingalls Wilder
Author: Pamela Smith Hill
Publisher: South Dakota State Historical Society
ISBN: 097779556X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 233
Book Description
"[E]xamines Wilder's tumultuous, but ultimately successful, professional and personal relationship with her daughter-the hidden editor-Rose Wilder Lane.
Publisher: South Dakota State Historical Society
ISBN: 097779556X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 233
Book Description
"[E]xamines Wilder's tumultuous, but ultimately successful, professional and personal relationship with her daughter-the hidden editor-Rose Wilder Lane.
Executive Documents
Author: Ohio
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 876
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 876
Book Description
Documents, Including Messages and Other Communications
Author: Ohio
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ohio
Languages : en
Pages : 876
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ohio
Languages : en
Pages : 876
Book Description
The Book that Made Me
Author: Judith Ridge
Publisher: Candlewick Press
ISBN: 0763696714
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 257
Book Description
Essays by popular children's authors reveal the books that shaped their personal and literary lives, explaining how the stories they loved influenced them creatively, politically, and intellectually.
Publisher: Candlewick Press
ISBN: 0763696714
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 257
Book Description
Essays by popular children's authors reveal the books that shaped their personal and literary lives, explaining how the stories they loved influenced them creatively, politically, and intellectually.
Sugar Creek
Author: John Mack Faragher
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 9780300042634
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
Follows the development of a rural Illinois community from its origins near the beginning of the nineteenth century, looks at community activity, and tells the stories of ordinary pioneers
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 9780300042634
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
Follows the development of a rural Illinois community from its origins near the beginning of the nineteenth century, looks at community activity, and tells the stories of ordinary pioneers