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Frontier living / written and illustrated by Edwin Tunis. [print]

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York : Lyons Press, (c)2000.Description: 165 pages : illustrations, maps ; 28 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 158574137X
  • 9781585741373
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • E161.T926.F766 2000
  • E161.T926.F766 2000
Available additional physical forms:
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Contents:
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.
Summary: Describes the daily lives of American pioneers who explored and settled the territories west of the Appalachians.
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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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