Book Description
Explores the hardships faced by American pioneers, both on the trail and in frontier towns, using a question and answer format.
Author : Kenneth C. Davis
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 19,54 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Children's questions and answers
ISBN : 9780060286187
Explores the hardships faced by American pioneers, both on the trail and in frontier towns, using a question and answer format.
Author : Kenneth C. Davis
Publisher :
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 15,75 MB
Release :
Category :
ISBN : 9780064462327
How did pioneers catch "Oregon Fever"? Were buffalo chips a tasty after-school snack? What famous western outlaw was really just a kid? Westward ho! Pack up your wagon and come along on this thrilling adventure. Read about the brave pioneers who traveled the Oregon Trail, and share their excitement in finally settling into a log cabin or sod house. Unfortunately, the West wasn't always the paradise the pioneers thought it would be. Harsh weather, accidents, and disease often delayed their journeys. And after they arrived, the chores were endless! Can you imagine helping to make bread, jelly, soap, and even your own clothes ... by hand? Kenneth C. Davis shows readers the real pioneer life in his trademark question-and-answer style. With cool quotes, fascinating sidebars, and lively illustrations by Renée Andriani, the West doesn't get any wilder than this.
Author : John Bliss
Publisher : Heinemann-Raintree Library
Page : 33 pages
File Size : 16,72 MB
Release : 2011-07
Category : History
ISBN : 1410940764
Offers insight into the pioneer children's daily life and provides profiles of real migrant children and their later successes.
Author : David McCullough
Publisher : Simon & Schuster
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 39,78 MB
Release : 2019-05-07
Category : History
ISBN : 1501168681
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Pulitzer Prize–winning historian David McCullough rediscovers an important and dramatic chapter in the American story—the settling of the Northwest Territory by dauntless pioneers who overcame incredible hardships to build a community based on ideals that would come to define our country. As part of the Treaty of Paris, in which Great Britain recognized the new United States of America, Britain ceded the land that comprised the immense Northwest Territory, a wilderness empire northwest of the Ohio River containing the future states of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, and Wisconsin. A Massachusetts minister named Manasseh Cutler was instrumental in opening this vast territory to veterans of the Revolutionary War and their families for settlement. Included in the Northwest Ordinance were three remarkable conditions: freedom of religion, free universal education, and most importantly, the prohibition of slavery. In 1788 the first band of pioneers set out from New England for the Northwest Territory under the leadership of Revolutionary War veteran General Rufus Putnam. They settled in what is now Marietta on the banks of the Ohio River. McCullough tells the story through five major characters: Cutler and Putnam; Cutler’s son Ephraim; and two other men, one a carpenter turned architect, and the other a physician who became a prominent pioneer in American science. They and their families created a town in a primeval wilderness, while coping with such frontier realities as floods, fires, wolves and bears, no roads or bridges, no guarantees of any sort, all the while negotiating a contentious and sometimes hostile relationship with the native people. Like so many of McCullough’s subjects, they let no obstacle deter or defeat them. Drawn in great part from a rare and all-but-unknown collection of diaries and letters by the key figures, The Pioneers is a uniquely American story of people whose ambition and courage led them to remarkable accomplishments. This is a revelatory and quintessentially American story, written with David McCullough’s signature narrative energy.
Author : Kenneth C. Davis
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 17,51 MB
Release : 2009-10-13
Category : Reference
ISBN : 0061828556
In his wildly entertaining, winningly irreverent, New York Times bestselling Don't Know Much About® series, author Kenneth C. Davis has amused and edified us with fascinating facts about history, mythology, the Bible, the universe, geography, and the Civil War. Now, the sky's the limit in his latest irresistible installment—a grand tour of knowledge that carries us from the Great Smoky Mountains to the Berlin Wall, from the Salem Witch Trials to Watergate, from Michelangelo to Houdini. Brimming with busted myths, gripping true stories, and peculiar particulars about a plethora of people, places, and events, this captivating compendium is guaranteed to delight information lovers everywhere as it feeds our insatiable appetite to know everything!
Author : Willa Cather
Publisher : Modernista
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 21,85 MB
Release : 2024-07-15
Category :
ISBN : 9181080794
When the young Swedish-descended Alexandra Bergson inherits her father's farm in Nebraska, she must transform the land from a wind-swept prairie landscape into a thriving enterprise. She dedicates herself completely to the land—at the cost of great sacrifices. O Pioneers! [1913] is Willa Cather's great masterpiece about American pioneers, where the land is as important a character as the people who cultivate it. WILLA CATHER [1873-1947] was an American author. After studying at the University of Nebraska, she worked as a teacher and journalist. Cather's novels often focus on settlers in the USA with a particular emphasis on female pioneers. In 1923, she was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for the novel One of Ours, and in 1943, she was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Author : Joanna Stratton
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 26,4 MB
Release : 1982-09-17
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0671447483
A book about the life of pioneer women in Kansas.
Author : Pat McCarthy
Publisher : Chicago Review Press
Page : 143 pages
File Size : 37,16 MB
Release : 2009-08
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 1613741995
Tracing the vivid saga of Native American and pioneer men, women, and children, this guide covers the colonial beginnings of the westward expansion to the last of the homesteaders in the late 20th century. Dozens of firsthand accounts from journals and autobiographies of the era form a rich and detailed story that shows how life in the backwoods and on the prairie mirrors modern life in many ways--children attended school and had daily chores, parents worked hard to provide for their families, and communities gathered for church and social events. More than 20 activities are included in this engaging guide to life in the west, including learning to churn butter, making dip candles, tracking animals, playing Blind Man's Bluff, and creating a homestead diorama.
Author : Lillian Schlissel
Publisher : Schocken
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 20,52 MB
Release : 2011-08-03
Category : History
ISBN : 0307803171
An expanded edition of one of the most original and provocative works of American history of the last decade, which documents the pioneering experiences and grit of American frontier women.
Author : Phillip Mann
Publisher : Gateway
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 40,27 MB
Release : 2011-09-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0575114908
Blue Genes... Ape-like and with one arm replaced by a claw, the not-quite-human Angelo and his beautiful female partner Ariadne are genetically bred rescuers programmed to travel vast distances through space in suspended animation to bring back Pioneers - explorers sent out from Earth generations ago to settle other planets. The latest mission is to rescue Pioneer Murray from the planet La Plage and to return to Earth where - as usual - decades have passed while they have been travelling between the stars. But Earth itself has gone through a catastrophic collapse from which its burnt-out civilization is trying to recover. And amongst the remnants of a sterile and despairing humanity, there is less room than ever before for such strange creatures as Angelo. Combining rich and weird alien environments with exciting deep-space adventure, Pioneers is a brilliant novel of love and alienation in a strange and poignant future.