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Author: John Bliss
Publisher: Heinemann-Raintree Library
Published: 2011-07
Total Pages: 33
ISBN-13: 1410940764
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOffers insight into the pioneer children's daily life and provides profiles of real migrant children and their later successes.
Author: Howard 1815-1878 Egan
Publisher: Wentworth Press
Published: 2016-08-27
Total Pages: 308
ISBN-13: 9781363796052
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Author: David McCullough
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Published: 2019-05-07
Total Pages: 352
ISBN-13: 1501168681
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe #1 New York Times bestseller by Pulitzer Prize–winning historian David McCullough rediscovers an important chapter in the American story that’s “as resonant today as ever” (The Wall Street Journal)—the settling of the Northwest Territory by courageous pioneers who overcame incredible hardships to build a community based on ideals that would define our country. As part of the Treaty of Paris, in which Great Britain recognized the new United States of America, Britain ceded the land that comprised the immense Northwest Territory, a wilderness empire northwest of the Ohio River containing the future states of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, and Wisconsin. A Massachusetts minister named Manasseh Cutler was instrumental in opening this vast territory to veterans of the Revolutionary War and their families for settlement. Included in the Northwest Ordinance were three remarkable conditions: freedom of religion, free universal education, and most importantly, the prohibition of slavery. In 1788 the first band of pioneers set out from New England for the Northwest Territory under the leadership of Revolutionary War veteran General Rufus Putnam. They settled in what is now Marietta on the banks of the Ohio River. McCullough tells the story through five major characters: Cutler and Putnam; Cutler’s son Ephraim; and two other men, one a carpenter turned architect, and the other a physician who became a prominent pioneer in American science. They and their families created a town in a primeval wilderness, while coping with such frontier realities as floods, fires, wolves and bears, no roads or bridges, no guarantees of any sort, all the while negotiating a contentious and sometimes hostile relationship with the native people. Like so many of McCullough’s subjects, they let no obstacle deter or defeat them. Drawn in great part from a rare and all-but-unknown collection of diaries and letters by the key figures, The Pioneers is a uniquely American story of people whose ambition and courage led them to remarkable accomplishments. This is a revelatory and quintessentially American story, written with David McCullough’s signature narrative energy.
Author: Pat McCarthy
Publisher: Chicago Review Press
Published: 2009-08
Total Pages: 143
ISBN-13: 1613741995
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTracing the vivid saga of Native American and pioneer men, women, and children, this guide covers the colonial beginnings of the westward expansion to the last of the homesteaders in the late 20th century. Dozens of firsthand accounts from journals and autobiographies of the era form a rich and detailed story that shows how life in the backwoods and on the prairie mirrors modern life in many ways--children attended school and had daily chores, parents worked hard to provide for their families, and communities gathered for church and social events. More than 20 activities are included in this engaging guide to life in the west, including learning to churn butter, making dip candles, tracking animals, playing Blind Man's Bluff, and creating a homestead diorama.
Author: Wes Seeliger
Publisher:
Published: 1985-08
Total Pages: 116
ISBN-13: 9780915321001
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Harriet Rochlin
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 262
ISBN-13: 9780618001965
DOWNLOAD EBOOKContributions of the Jewish men and women who helped shape the American frontier.
Author: Lillian Schlissel
Publisher: Schocken
Published: 2011-08-03
Total Pages: 289
ISBN-13: 0307803171
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn expanded edition of one of the most original and provocative works of American history of the last decade, which documents the pioneering experiences and grit of American frontier women.
Author: Cynthia Culver Prescott
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Published: 2019-04-04
Total Pages: 507
ISBN-13: 0806163887
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFor more than a century, American communities erected monuments to western pioneers. Although many of these statues receive little attention today, the images they depict—sturdy white men, saintly mothers, and wholesome pioneer families—enshrine prevailing notions of American exceptionalism, race relations, and gender identity. Pioneer Mother Monuments is the first book to delve into the long and complex history of remembering, forgetting, and rediscovering pioneer monuments. In this book, historian Cynthia Culver Prescott combines visual analysis with a close reading of primary-source documents. Examining some two hundred monuments erected in the United States from the late nineteenth century to the present, Prescott begins her survey by focusing on the earliest pioneer statues, which celebrated the strong white men who settled—and conquered—the West. By the 1930s, she explains, when gender roles began shifting, new monuments came forth to honor the Pioneer Mother. The angelic woman in a sunbonnet, armed with a rifle or a Bible as she carried civilization forward—an iconic figure—resonated particularly with Mormon audiences. While interest in these traditional monuments began to wane in the postwar period, according to Prescott, a new wave of pioneer monuments emerged in smaller communities during the late twentieth century. Inspired by rural nostalgia, these statues helped promote heritage tourism. In recent years, Americans have engaged in heated debates about Confederate Civil War monuments and their implicit racism. Should these statues be removed or reinterpreted? Far less attention, however, has been paid to pioneer monuments, which, Prescott argues, also enshrine white cultural superiority—as well as gender stereotypes. Only a few western communities have reexamined these values and erected statues with more inclusive imagery. Blending western history, visual culture, and memory studies, Prescott’s pathbreaking analysis is enhanced by a rich selection of color and black-and-white photographs depicting the statues along with detailed maps that chronologically chart the emergence of pioneer monuments.
Author: Martin W. Sandler
Publisher:
Published: 2014-04-04
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781484417973
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAnswers questions about the expansion of the Western United States, including what was gold fever, why did families risk everything to move West, who were the cowboys, and more.
Author: Patricia J. Murphy
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 2008-08-18
Total Pages: 36
ISBN-13: 0756651778
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPhotographs combine with lively illustrations and engaging, age-appropriate stories in DK Readers, a multilevel reading program guaranteed to capture children's interest while developing their reading skills and general knowledge. Journey of a Pioneer follows the adventures of a young girl as her family travels west in covered wagons along the famous Oregon Trail.
