Frontier living /written and illustrated by Edwin Tunis.
Material type: TextPublication details: New York : Lyons Press, (c)2000.Description: 165 pages : illustrations, maps ; 28 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9781585741373
- E161 .F766 2000
- E161
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"An illustrated guide to pioneer life in America, including log cabins, furniture, tools, clothing, and more"--Cover.
Originally published: Cleveland : World Pub. Company, 1961.
Describes the daily lives of American pioneers who explored and settled the territories west of the Appalachians.
1. The Deepwater Frontier
North America in 1725.
2. The Piedmont
The Flintlock Rifle -- People in the Woods -- Invasion -- The Log Cabin -- Household Articles -- Food -- Clothes -- Hunting -- Indians -- Forts -- Medicine and Witchcraft -- Justice -- Childhood and Sports -- Pack Trains.
3. The Southern Valleys
The Seven Years' War.
4. The Great Salient
The Revolutionary War -- The Garden of Eden -- The People -- Daily Life in the Clearings -- Linen -- Wool -- Weaving, Dyeing, and Fulling -- Housekeeping -- Sweet'nin' -- Outdoor Work -- Beef Cattle -- Farming -- Villages and Trades -- Saturday -- Sunday -- School -- Parties -- The Land Ordinances, 1785-1790.
5. Road and River
The Travelers -- The Floating Forts -- Navigation -- Trade on the Rivers -- Pirates -- Keelboats -- Upstream Navigation -- The Rivermen -- Other Boats -- Indian Treaties and Louisiana, 1795-1803 -- The Louisiana Purchase.
6. The Old Northwest
Public Land -- The National Road -- The Freight Wagons -- The Coach Lines -- Inns -- Farms -- The Barn -- Corn -- Scythe and Cradle -- Water -- Housekeeping -- Clothes -- People -- Religion -- Towns -- Money -- Utopias -- The "Permanent" Indian Frontier.
7. The Cotton Frontier
8. Shrinking Distances
Steam Navigation -- The Erie Canal -- The Pennsylvania System -- Early Railroads -- Southwestern Boundaries.
9. Beyond the Mississippi
Missouri -- Texas -- The Black Hawk War -- The Iowa Squatters -- Buck and Bright -- The Claims Clubs.
10. Caravans to Santa Fe
The Jump-Off -- Guns -- The Trail -- Santa Fe and the Ranchos -- Trading.
11. The Fur Trade and the Mountain Men
The Beaver and the "Company" -- The Company Posts -- The Rendezvous.
12. The Bitter Road to Oregon
The Missionaries Organization of the Wagon Train -- The Oregon Trail -- The Order of the Day -- The Buffalo -- On the Trail -- The Pathfinder of the West.
13. The Harried Saints
The Prophet -- Exodus -- The Promised Land.
14. Alta California
Missions, Presidios, and Pueblos -- Gay Prosperity -- The Ranchos and Trade -- Gringo Settlers -- Boundaries and "Manifest Destiny".
15. El Dorado
The Rush of the Argonauts -- The Diggings -- The Roaring Camps -- Washoe and Pike's Peak.
16. Two Thousand Miles
Stages in California -- Freight and Mail -- The Overland Mail -- The Concord Coah -- The Pony Express -- The Civil War and the West -- Thirty Miles an Hour -- Laying the Rails -- The Golden Spike -- The Clearing of the Plains.
17. The Cow Hunt and the Cowhand
The Longhorns -- The Cow Hunt -- Horses -- Cowhands -- Saddles and Equipment -- "Bleeding Kansas" and Homesteading.
18. The Sodbusters and the Cattle Drives
Soddies -- Water -- The Cattle Trails -- The Long Drive -- Sheep -- Barbed Wire.
19. The Run
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