pioneer children

Explores the lives of the children of settlers on the American frontier, looking especially at schooling, chores, home life, food, and recreation.

Meg Wells begins her diary in 1848 when she leaves her family behind to live with relatives in Kansas in order to escape the cholera epidemic in St. Louis.

Excerpts from personal letters, journals, and memoirs help chronicle the experiences of children who traveled west with their families in covered wagons between 1830 and 1870.

Explores the experiences of American children who traveled west to Oregon or California on wagon trains between 1841 and 1869, focusing on transportation, chores, recreation, and dangers.

Follow Liz and Samuel Butler through the four seasons of 1843 to show what life was like for pioneer children, and features projects, games, and recipes that mirror their activities in their frontier home.

Provides illustrated instructions for over fifteen pioneer craft projects, including toys, baskets, candles, moccasins, and others; and features tips on carving and sewing techniques.

A biography of the writer whose pioneer life on the American prairie became the basis for her "Little House" books.

Recounts eleven-year-old Oliver Johnson's experiences living in the densely forested wilderness of nineteenth-century central Indiana.

Describes what life was like for young people moving to and living on the western frontier.

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 1846-47.