Frontier living / written and illustrated by Edwin Tunis. [print]
Material type: TextPublication details: New York : Lyons Press, (c)2000.Description: 165 pages : illustrations, maps ; 28 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 158574137X
- 9781585741373
- E161.T926.F766 2000
- E161.T926.F766 2000
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Item type | Current library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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Juvenile Book (10-day checkout) | G. Allen Fleece Library Newbery Award Collection - Second Floor | Fiction | E161 .T85 2000 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 31923001759642 |
"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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