Frontier living
by Edwin Tunis
- New York World Publishing Company 1961
- 165 p.
Includes index Awards:Newbery Honor Book, 1962.
1. THE DEEPWATER FRONTIER: North America in 1725 -- 2. THE PIEDMONT -- The flintlock rifle -- People in the woods -- Invasion -- The log cabin -- Household articles -- Food -- Clothes -- Hunting -- Indians -- Forts -- Medicine and witchcraft -- Justice -- Childhood and sports -- Pack trains -- 3. THE SOUTHERN VALLEYS -- The Seven Years' War -- 4. THE GREAT SALIENT -- The Revolutionary War -- The Garden of Eden -- The people -- Daily life in the clearings -- Linen -- Wool -- Weaving, dyeing and fulling -- Housekeeping -- Sweet'nin' -- Outdoor work -- Beef cattle -- Farming -- Villages and trades -- Saturday -- Sunday -- School -- Parties -- The land ordinances, 1785 -- 1790 -- 5. ROAD AND RIVER -- The travelers -- The floating forts -- Navigation -- Trade on the rivers -- Pirates -- Keelboats -- Upstream navigation -- The rivermen -- Other boats -- Indian treaties and Louisiana, 1795-1803 -- The Louisana Purchase -- 6. THE OLD NORTHWEST -- Public land -- The national road -- The freight wagons -- The coach lines -- Inns -- Farms -- The barn -- Corn -- Scythe and cradle -- Water -- Housekeeping -- Clothes -- People -- Religion -- Towns -- Money -- Utopias -- The "Permanent" Indian frontier -- 7. THE COTTON FRONTIER -- 8. SHRINKING DISTANCES -- Steam navigation -- The Erie Canal -- The Pennsylvania system -- Early railroads) -- Southwestern boundaries -- 9. BEYOND THE MISSISSIPPI -- Missouri -- Texas -- The Black Hawk War -- The Iowa squatters -- Buck and bright -- The claims clubs -- 10. CARAVANS TO SANTA FE -- The jump-off -- Guns -- The trail -- Santa Fe and the ranchos -- Trading -- 11. THE FUR TRADE AND THE MOUNTAIN MEN -- The Beaver and the "Company" -- The Company posts -- The Rendezvous -- 12. THE BITTER ROAD TO OREGON -- The missionaries -- Organization of the wagon trail -- The Oregon trail -- The order of the day -- The buffalo -- On the trail -- The Pathfind of the West -- 13. THE HARRIED SAINTS -- The prophet -- Exodus -- The promised land -- 14. ALTA CALIFORNIA -- Missions, Presidios, and pueblos -- Gay prosperity -- The ranchos and trade -- Gringo settlers -- Boundaries and "Manifest Destiny" -- 15. EL DORADO -- The rush of the Argonauts -- The diggings -- The roaring camps -- Washoe and Pike's peak -- 16. TWO THOUSAND MILES -- Stages in California -- Freight and mail -- The overland mail -- The concord coach -- The pony express -- The Civil War and the west -- Thirty miles an hour -- Laying the rails -- The golden spike -- The clearing of the plains -- 17. THE COW HUNT AND THE COWHAND -- The longhorns -- The cow hunt -- Horses -- Cowhands -- Saddles and equipment -- "Bleeding Kansas" and homesteading -- 18. THE SODBUSTERS AND THE CATTLE DRIVES -- Soddies -- Water -- The cattle trails -- The long drive -- Sheep -- Barbed wire.
"A companion book to the author's 'Colonial Living, ' describing the life of all the early settlers of the American [frontier] ... where they lived and how; what they wore, ate, used for furniture and tools; how they worked, played, traveled, went to school, worshiped and governed themselves."
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158574137X
9781585741373
Juvenile literature.--United States--United States--United States