In Growing Up Country: Memories of an Iowa Farm Girl, Carol Bodensteiner tells the stories of a happy childhood growing up on a family-owned dairy farm in the m

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The masterful and poignant story of three African-American families who journeyed west after emancipation, by an award-winning scholar and descendant of the mig

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

Describes what life was like, especially for children, in coal mines and mining towns in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.