Frontier living / [print]
written and illustrated by Edwin Tunis.
- New York : Lyons Press, (c)2000.
- 165 pages : illustrations, maps ; 28 cm
"An illustrated guide to pioneer life in America, including log cabins, furniture, tools, clothing, and more"--Cover. Originally published: Cleveland : World Pub. Company, 1961. 1. The Deepwater Frontier 2. The Piedmont 3. The Southern Valleys 4. The Great Salient 5. Road and River 6. The Old Northwest 7. The Cotton Frontier 8. Shrinking Distances 9. Beyond the Mississippi 10. Caravans to Santa Fe 11. The Fur Trade and the Mountain Men 12. The Bitter Road to Oregon 13. The Harried Saints 14. Alta California 15. El Dorado 16. Two Thousand Miles 17. The Cow Hunt and the Cowhand 18. The Sodbusters and the Cattle Drives 19. The Run
North America in 1725. 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. The Seven Years' War. 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. 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. 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. Steam Navigation The Erie Canal The Pennsylvania System Early Railroads Southwestern Boundaries. Missouri Texas The Black Hawk War The Iowa Squatters Buck and Bright The Claims Clubs. The Jump-Off Guns The Trail Santa Fe and the Ranchos Trading. The Beaver and the "Company" ; The Company Posts The Rendezvous. 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. The Prophet Exodus The Promised Land. Missions, Presidios, and Pueblos Gay Prosperity The Ranchos and Trade Gringo Settlers Boundaries and "Manifest Destiny". The Rush of the Argonauts The Diggings The Roaring Camps Washoe and Pike's Peak. 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. The Longhorns The Cow Hunt Horses Cowhands Saddles and Equipment ; "Bleeding Kansas" and Homesteading. Soddies Water The Cattle Trails The Long Drive Sheep Barbed Wire.
Describes the daily lives of American pioneers who explored and settled the territories west of the Appalachians.
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Frontier and pioneer life--United States--Juvenile literature. Frontier and pioneer life.
United States--Social life and customs--Juvenile literature. United States--Social life and customs.