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Describes the challenges that American settlers faced when they left the farms and towns in the East in their Conestoga wagons and headed West.
Author : Raymond Bial
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 29,94 MB
Release : 1993
Category : Dwellings
ISBN : 9780395947432
Describes the challenges that American settlers faced when they left the farms and towns in the East in their Conestoga wagons and headed West.
Author : Rachel Hinman
Publisher : Rosenfeld Media
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 14,11 MB
Release : 2012-06-11
Category : Computers
ISBN : 1933820055
Mobile user experience is a new frontier. Untethered from a keyboard and mouse, this rich design space is lush with opportunity to invent new and more human ways for people to interact with information. Invention requires casting off many anchors and conventions inherited from the last 50 years of computer science and traditional design and jumping head first into a new and unfamiliar design space.
Author : Honor Sachs
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 36,72 MB
Release : 2015-10-27
Category : History
ISBN : 030021653X
On America’s western frontier, myths of prosperity concealed the brutal conditions endured by women, slaves, orphans, and the poor. As poverty and unrest took root in eighteenth-century Kentucky, western lawmakers championed ideas about whiteness, manhood, and patriarchal authority to help stabilize a politically fractious frontier. Honor Sachs combines rigorous scholarship with an engaging narrative to examine how conditions in Kentucky facilitated the expansion of rights for white men in ways that would become a model for citizenship in the country as a whole. Endorsed by many prominent western historians, this groundbreaking work is a major contribution to frontier scholarship.
Author : Walter A. Hazen
Publisher : Good Year Books
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 46,93 MB
Release : 2008-07
Category : Education
ISBN : 1596472685
Topics: getting there, homes, food and clothing, tasks and chores, dangers and hardships, frontier schools, fun and amusements, justice, towns, heroes and heroines, and Native Americans. Eleven fascinating historical articles (four or five pages long, and reproducible for easy distribution) summarize main points and deliver colorful, memorable details about history. Following each illustrated article, three or four reproducible worksheets test comprehension and spark deeper engagement through creative writing, arts and crafts projects, research starters, critical thinking questions, what-if scenarios, and other activities. Grades 48. Suggested readings. Answer keys.
Author : Marianne J. Dyson
Publisher : National Geographic Children's Books
Page : 72 pages
File Size : 11,47 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Fiction
ISBN :
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Author : Stacey L. Smith
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 341 pages
File Size : 32,46 MB
Release : 2013-08-12
Category : History
ISBN : 1469607697
Most histories of the Civil War era portray the struggle over slavery as a conflict that exclusively pitted North against South, free labor against slave labor, and black against white. In Freedom's Frontier, Stacey L. Smith examines the battle over slavery as it unfolded on the multiracial Pacific Coast. Despite its antislavery constitution, California was home to a dizzying array of bound and semibound labor systems: African American slavery, American Indian indenture, Latino and Chinese contract labor, and a brutal sex traffic in bound Indian and Chinese women. Using untapped legislative and court records, Smith reconstructs the lives of California's unfree workers and documents the political and legal struggles over their destiny as the nation moved through the Civil War, emancipation, and Reconstruction. Smith reveals that the state's anti-Chinese movement, forged in its struggle over unfree labor, reached eastward to transform federal Reconstruction policy and national race relations for decades to come. Throughout, she illuminates the startling ways in which the contest over slavery's fate included a western struggle that encompassed diverse labor systems and workers not easily classified as free or slave, black or white.
Author : Simon Shaw
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 27,3 MB
Release : 2002
Category : History
ISBN : 0743442709
Follows three families as they recreate the lives of Western homesteaders.
Author : Marta McDowell
Publisher : Timber Press
Page : 397 pages
File Size : 34,63 MB
Release : 2017-09-20
Category : Gardening
ISBN : 1604698330
“If you loved Wilder’s books, or if you garden with a child who loves her books, you will enjoy the read.” —San Francisco Chronicle In this revealing exploration of Laura Ingalls Wilder’s deep connection with the natural world, Marta McDowell follows the wagon trail of the beloved Little House series. You’ll learn details about Wilder’s life and inspirations, pinpoint the Ingalls and Wilder homestead claims on authentic archival maps, and learn how to grow the plants and vegetables featured in the series. Excerpts from Wilder’s books, letters, and diaries bring to light her profound appreciation for the landscapes at the heart of her world. Featuring the beloved illustrations by Helen Sewell and Garth Williams, plus hundreds of historic and contemporary photographs, The World of Laura Ingalls Wilder is a treasure that honors Laura’s wild and beautiful life.
Author : Linda S. Peavy
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 14,20 MB
Release : 1994
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780806126197
Looks at the lives of the homebound wives of Western pioneers
Author : Joan M. Jensen
Publisher : Minnesota Historical Society
Page : 519 pages
File Size : 34,98 MB
Release : 2009-08
Category : History
ISBN : 0873517288
An intimate view of frontier women--Anglo and Indian--and the communities they forged.