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Pioneer children of Appalachia
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Joan Anderson |
Text and photographs from a living history village in West Virginia recreate the pioneer life of young people in Appalachia in the early nineteenth century. |
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Pioneer puzzle
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Marianne Monson |
Twins Nathan and Aria discover that tunnels under the stage in their church's cultural hall lead, magically, to another time when they find themselves on the pioneer trail with Joseph, a boy their ag… |
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In the boyhood of Lincoln
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Hezekiah Butterworth |
The adventures of a pioneer Dunkard schoolmaster serve to illustrate the life of a newly settled country as well as the hardships and manly struggles of the future statesman. Collects many Indian rom… |
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These Happy Golden Years
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Garth Williams,Laura Ingalls Wilder |
The Ingalls family homesteads on their claim in DeSmet, South Dakota. Fifteen-year-old Laura begins to take schoolteaching jobs to raise money for Mary's college. Laura is surprised when Almanzo Wild… |
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The perilous journey of the Donner Party
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Marian Calabro |
Uses materials from letters and diaries written by survivors of the Donner Party to relate the experiences of that ill-fated group as they endured horrific circumstances on their way to California in… |
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Trouble for Lucy
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Carla Stevens |
As she and her family travel the Oregon Trail in 1843, Lucy's puppies persist in creating trouble. |
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Diary of Sallie Hester
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Sallie Hester |
Presents excerpts from the diary of Sallie Hester, a teenager who traveled West on the Oregon Trail in a wagon train in the mid-1800s.
This book presents excerpts from the diary of Sallie Hester, a … |
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Pioneer girl
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William Anderson |
Recounts the life story of the author of the "Little House" books, from her childhood in Wisconsin to her old age at Rocky Ridge Farm. |
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The promise of the West
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Mary Barmeyer O'Brien |
"Driven by the promise of prosperity and opportunity on the frontier, thousands of men and women traveled west in the mid-1800s to forge a new life. Accompanying them were their children, wide-eyed a… |
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Log cabin in the woods
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Joanne Landers Henry |
Recounts eleven-year-old Oliver Johnson's experiences living in the densely forested wilderness of nineteenth-century central Indiana. |
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George Rogers Clark, boy of the Northwest frontier
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Katharine Elliott Wilkie |
This biography details the childhood adventures of George Rogers Clark, the older brother of William Clark of the famous Lewis and Clark expedition. George was a courageous explorer and Revolutionary… |
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Story of Laura Ingalls Wilder
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Megan Stine |
A biography of the writer whose pioneer life on the American prairie became the basis for her "Little House" books. |
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