pioneers

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pioneers

Westward expansion

2002
Describes the popular culture of the American period of westward expansion--1849 to 1890--covering such aspects as advertising, fashion, food, leisure, literature, and music, and listing the prices of several products.

Calamity Jane

2005
A biography of one the West's wildest women known for her outrageous behavior and claims of scouting for the Army and fighting off Indians.

Women in the West

2003
Briefly explores what it was like for a woman to live and work in the Old West, including first-hand accounts about such things as making soap, clothing, and nutritious meals.

A frontier family in Minnesota

letters of Theodore and Sophie Bost, 1851-1920
1981
Presents the lively correspondence of Theodore and Sophie Bost, a pioneer couple who settled in Minnesota.

The Overland Trail

from Atchison, Kansas, to Ft. Bridger, Wyoming
2003
Describes the Overland Trail and the frontiersmen who traveled to Fort Bridger.

Seule au Nouveau Monde

H?l?ne St-Onge, Fille du Roy
2003
A young woman uses her journal to chronicle her journey from France to Canada.

Drums along the Mohawk

1936
A Revolutionary War story of pioneers in New York State.

The frontiersmen

1977
Portrays the people and times, the drama and danger of the developing frontier in eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century United States.

The wagon train

2003
Briefly explores what it was like to travel across the country by wagon train, including first-hand accounts about such things as cooking on the trail and dangers to be faced.

Wagon train 911

2001
As a school project, sixth graders recreate a westward trek to Oregon with all the perils that faced real pioneers.

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