Author: Sylvia Whitman
Publisher: Lerner Publications
ISBN: 9781575052403
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 56
Book Description
Explores the lives of the children of settlers on the American frontier, looking especially at schooling, chores, home life, food, and recreation.
Children of the Frontier
Author: Sylvia Whitman
Publisher: Lerner Publications
ISBN: 9781575052403
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 56
Book Description
Explores the lives of the children of settlers on the American frontier, looking especially at schooling, chores, home life, food, and recreation.
Publisher: Lerner Publications
ISBN: 9781575052403
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 56
Book Description
Explores the lives of the children of settlers on the American frontier, looking especially at schooling, chores, home life, food, and recreation.
Women of the Frontier
Author: Brandon Marie Miller
Publisher: Chicago Review Press
ISBN: 161374000X
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 253
Book Description
An Notable Social Studies Trade Book for Young People Using journal entries, letters home, and song lyrics, the women of the West speak for themselves in these tales of courage, enduring spirit, and adventure. Women such as Amelia Stewart Knight traveling on the Oregon Trail, homesteader Miriam Colt, entrepreneur Clara Brown, army wife Frances Grummond, actress Adah Isaacs Menken, naturalist Martha Maxwell, missionary Narcissa Whitman, and political activist Mary Lease are introduced to readers through their harrowing stories of journeying across the plains and mountains to unknown land. Recounting the impact pioneers had on those who were already living in the region as well as how they adapted to their new lives and the rugged, often dangerous landscape, this exploration also offers resources for further study and reveals how these influential women tamed the Wild West.
Publisher: Chicago Review Press
ISBN: 161374000X
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 253
Book Description
An Notable Social Studies Trade Book for Young People Using journal entries, letters home, and song lyrics, the women of the West speak for themselves in these tales of courage, enduring spirit, and adventure. Women such as Amelia Stewart Knight traveling on the Oregon Trail, homesteader Miriam Colt, entrepreneur Clara Brown, army wife Frances Grummond, actress Adah Isaacs Menken, naturalist Martha Maxwell, missionary Narcissa Whitman, and political activist Mary Lease are introduced to readers through their harrowing stories of journeying across the plains and mountains to unknown land. Recounting the impact pioneers had on those who were already living in the region as well as how they adapted to their new lives and the rugged, often dangerous landscape, this exploration also offers resources for further study and reveals how these influential women tamed the Wild West.
Frontier Dream
Author: Catherine E. Chambers
Publisher: Troll Communications
ISBN: 9780816763337
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Norwegian homesteader Chris Isaacsen dreams of owning a farm in the Dakota territory with his family, which will come true--according to the Homestead Act--if he lives on the land for five years.
Publisher: Troll Communications
ISBN: 9780816763337
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Norwegian homesteader Chris Isaacsen dreams of owning a farm in the Dakota territory with his family, which will come true--according to the Homestead Act--if he lives on the land for five years.
Children of the West
Author: Cathy Luchetti
Publisher: W W Norton & Company Incorporated
ISBN: 9780393049138
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 253
Book Description
Uses letters, diaries, journals, and photographs to journey into the lives of the families who populated the pioneer West, from black Exodusters and Asian immigrants to Native Americans.
Publisher: W W Norton & Company Incorporated
ISBN: 9780393049138
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 253
Book Description
Uses letters, diaries, journals, and photographs to journey into the lives of the families who populated the pioneer West, from black Exodusters and Asian immigrants to Native Americans.
Frontier Children
Author: Linda Peavy
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN: 9780806135052
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 182
Book Description
Vintage photographs accompany the stories of pioneer children and their families
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN: 9780806135052
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 182
Book Description
Vintage photographs accompany the stories of pioneer children and their families
Davy Crockett
Author: Stephen Krensky
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 0689859449
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 48
Book Description
A simple, illustrated biography of one of America's most famous pioneers and soldiers.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 0689859449
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 48
Book Description
A simple, illustrated biography of one of America's most famous pioneers and soldiers.
George Rogers Clark
Author: Katharine E. Wilkie
Publisher: ReadHowYouWant.com
ISBN: 1458775313
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 118
Book Description
Part of the Young Patriots series, which includes Amelia Earhart, Young Air Pioneer (1882859049), Juliette Low, Girl Scout Founder (188285909X), and William Henry Harrison, Young Tippecanoe (1882859073) ''Hook kids on history with the Young Patriots series!' - Learning Magazine This biography details the childhood adventures of George Rogers Clark, the older brother of William Clark of the famous Lewis and Clark expedition. George was a courageous explorer and Revolutionary War hero whose bravery and leadership helped win the Battle of Vincennes, saving what would become Ohio, Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, and Wisconsin from British occupation. Georges boyhood curiosity and zest for exploration are described, including his adventures while camping, riding horses, and playing with his childhood friend Thomas Jefferson. Young explorers follow George into the woods, where he rescues a baby raccoon, outwits a hapless thief, saves a money bag, and hunts his first deer. Special features include a summary of Clark's adult accomplishments, fun facts detailing little-known tidbits of information about Clark, and a timeline.
Publisher: ReadHowYouWant.com
ISBN: 1458775313
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 118
Book Description
Part of the Young Patriots series, which includes Amelia Earhart, Young Air Pioneer (1882859049), Juliette Low, Girl Scout Founder (188285909X), and William Henry Harrison, Young Tippecanoe (1882859073) ''Hook kids on history with the Young Patriots series!' - Learning Magazine This biography details the childhood adventures of George Rogers Clark, the older brother of William Clark of the famous Lewis and Clark expedition. George was a courageous explorer and Revolutionary War hero whose bravery and leadership helped win the Battle of Vincennes, saving what would become Ohio, Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, and Wisconsin from British occupation. Georges boyhood curiosity and zest for exploration are described, including his adventures while camping, riding horses, and playing with his childhood friend Thomas Jefferson. Young explorers follow George into the woods, where he rescues a baby raccoon, outwits a hapless thief, saves a money bag, and hunts his first deer. Special features include a summary of Clark's adult accomplishments, fun facts detailing little-known tidbits of information about Clark, and a timeline.
Heroes of the Frontier
Author: Dave Eggers
Publisher: Knopf Canada
ISBN: 0735272468
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 357
Book Description
A captivating, often hilarious novel of family, loss, wilderness, and the curse of a violent America, Dave Eggers’s Heroes of the Frontier is a powerful examination of our contemporary life and a rousing story of adventure. Josie and her children’s father have split up, she’s been sued by a former patient and lost her dental practice, and she’s grieving the death of a young man senselessly killed. When her ex asks to take the children to meet his new fiancée’s family, Josie makes a run for it, figuring Alaska is about as far as she can get without a passport. Josie and her kids, Paul and Ana, rent a rattling old RV named the Chateau, and at first their trip feels like a vacation: They see bears and bison, they eat hot dogs cooked on a bonfire, and they spend nights parked along icy cold rivers in dark forests. But as they drive, pushed north by the ubiquitous wildfires, Josie is chased by enemies both real and imagined, past mistakes pursuing her tiny family, even to the very edge of civilization. A tremendous new novel from the bestselling author of The Circle, Heroes of the Frontier is the darkly comic story of a mother and her two young children on a journey through an Alaskan wilderness plagued by wildfires and a uniquely American madness.
Publisher: Knopf Canada
ISBN: 0735272468
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 357
Book Description
A captivating, often hilarious novel of family, loss, wilderness, and the curse of a violent America, Dave Eggers’s Heroes of the Frontier is a powerful examination of our contemporary life and a rousing story of adventure. Josie and her children’s father have split up, she’s been sued by a former patient and lost her dental practice, and she’s grieving the death of a young man senselessly killed. When her ex asks to take the children to meet his new fiancée’s family, Josie makes a run for it, figuring Alaska is about as far as she can get without a passport. Josie and her kids, Paul and Ana, rent a rattling old RV named the Chateau, and at first their trip feels like a vacation: They see bears and bison, they eat hot dogs cooked on a bonfire, and they spend nights parked along icy cold rivers in dark forests. But as they drive, pushed north by the ubiquitous wildfires, Josie is chased by enemies both real and imagined, past mistakes pursuing her tiny family, even to the very edge of civilization. A tremendous new novel from the bestselling author of The Circle, Heroes of the Frontier is the darkly comic story of a mother and her two young children on a journey through an Alaskan wilderness plagued by wildfires and a uniquely American madness.
The Collected Short Stories of Louis L'Amour, Volume 1
Author: Louis L'Amour
Publisher: Bantam
ISBN: 0553392263
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Louis L’Amour is recognized the world over as one of the most prolific and popular American authors. While every one of his eighty-nine novels is still in print, a lesser known fact is that L’Amour is also one of the all-time bestselling authors of short fiction. Compared by The Wall Street Journal to Jack London and Robert Louis Stevenson, L’Amour’s Collected Short Stories are now presented for the first time in paperback. The Collected Short Stories of Louis L’Amour, Volume 1, features thirty-five action-packed Frontier Stories. It kicks off a series of nine paperbacks, including a two-part volume of Adventure Stories and a two-part volume of Crime Stories, which brings all of L’Amour’s short fiction to his millions of readers around the world.
Publisher: Bantam
ISBN: 0553392263
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Louis L’Amour is recognized the world over as one of the most prolific and popular American authors. While every one of his eighty-nine novels is still in print, a lesser known fact is that L’Amour is also one of the all-time bestselling authors of short fiction. Compared by The Wall Street Journal to Jack London and Robert Louis Stevenson, L’Amour’s Collected Short Stories are now presented for the first time in paperback. The Collected Short Stories of Louis L’Amour, Volume 1, features thirty-five action-packed Frontier Stories. It kicks off a series of nine paperbacks, including a two-part volume of Adventure Stories and a two-part volume of Crime Stories, which brings all of L’Amour’s short fiction to his millions of readers around the world.
What Was Your Name Downriver?
Author: Anthony Lowe
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 186
Book Description
THE WITCHER MEETS TRUE GRIT Evaline Cartwright: war veteran, bounty hunter, known to many in Ariasun County by her thoroughly-earned appellation, "Calamity Cartwright." Trivan Esterhazy: a woman gravely wounded, hoping to find a better life for herself in more civilized parts of the nation. The two have only just met, both riding a steamboat north through the county to escape foul dealings in their respective lives, but a violent attack by a rogue mage has ensured their abrupt alliance. Armed with Evaline's wits and weaponry and Trivan's instincts and common sense, the women will have to plot their way through hostile territory and wild woods in the hopes of defeating the mage and freeing themselves of its volatile magicks. What Was Your Name Downriver? is an introduction to The Shattered Frontier, a Tolkien-esque fantasy world that has advanced into an age of steam, gunslingers and gold rushes. Follow Evaline and Trivan in their adventures across one of the most hostile counties in the land, replete with scoundrels of all shapes, sizes, and magickal ability. CONTENTS: What Was Your Name Downriver?, a novella "The Horse Thieves of Ariasun County," a short story "Gunfight at the Thornmount Colossus," a short story ***RUNNER-UP FOR THE 2016 BAEN BOOKS FANTASY-ADVENTURE AWARD***
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 186
Book Description
THE WITCHER MEETS TRUE GRIT Evaline Cartwright: war veteran, bounty hunter, known to many in Ariasun County by her thoroughly-earned appellation, "Calamity Cartwright." Trivan Esterhazy: a woman gravely wounded, hoping to find a better life for herself in more civilized parts of the nation. The two have only just met, both riding a steamboat north through the county to escape foul dealings in their respective lives, but a violent attack by a rogue mage has ensured their abrupt alliance. Armed with Evaline's wits and weaponry and Trivan's instincts and common sense, the women will have to plot their way through hostile territory and wild woods in the hopes of defeating the mage and freeing themselves of its volatile magicks. What Was Your Name Downriver? is an introduction to The Shattered Frontier, a Tolkien-esque fantasy world that has advanced into an age of steam, gunslingers and gold rushes. Follow Evaline and Trivan in their adventures across one of the most hostile counties in the land, replete with scoundrels of all shapes, sizes, and magickal ability. CONTENTS: What Was Your Name Downriver?, a novella "The Horse Thieves of Ariasun County," a short story "Gunfight at the Thornmount Colossus," a short story ***RUNNER-UP FOR THE 2016 BAEN BOOKS FANTASY-ADVENTURE AWARD***