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

Vintage photographs accompany the stories of pioneer children and their families

Uses letters, diaries, journals, and photographs to journey into the lives of the families who populated the pioneer West, from black Exodusters and Asian immig

This illustrated study shows how frontier life shaped children's character.

Although the Nez Perce (Nee-Me-Poo) Indians gave instrumental help to Lewis and Clark on their famous expedition, they were rewarded by decades of invasive trea