pioneer children

Vintage photographs combine with primary and secondary source information to provide a picture of what life was like for children growing up in the nineteenth-century American West.

Biography of the author who wrote the "Little House" books and others about her childhood in the late 1800s as a pioneer.

A biography of Grace McCance Snyder, who grew up on the nineteenth-century Nebraska prairie, detailing the everyday joys and struggles of American pioneers.

Childhood of the explorer and soldier who won the Northwest Territory for the United States during the Revolutionary War.

Tells the stories of ten young women who traveled west in the mid-1800s, discussing the perils and adventures of their pionner experiences; and includes excerpts from their diaries.

Excerpts from the diary of a fourteen-year-old girl tell of her family's journey along the Oregon-California Trail during 1849-1850. Includes sidebars, activities, and a timeline related to the era.

Describes the experiences of children and teenagers who made overland journeys in nineteenth-century America, including the California, Oregon, and Mormon trails, and presents profiles of ten individual children, adolescents, and sets of siblings.

Using diaries, letters, journals, and reminiscences, Werner tells the stories of 120 young people who braved the frontier as pioneers.

In 1848, nine-year-old Joshua Martin McCullough writes a journal of his family's journey from Missouri to Oregon in a covered wagon. Includes a historical note about westward migration.

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.