American Pioneers and Patriots

American Pioneers and Patriots
Author: Caroline Emerson
Publisher: Christian Liberty Press
Total Pages: 192
Release: 2005-09-28
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 9781932971514

American Pioneers & Patriots will allow your 3rd and 4th grade students to explore America's past through the fictional accounts of typical pioneer families. Young patriots of today will gain an appreciation of the courage it took to build this great nation of ours!

The Pioneers

The Pioneers
Author: David McCullough
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Total Pages: 352
Release: 2019-05-07
Genre: History
ISBN: 1501168681

The #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.

You Wouldn't Want to be an American Pioneer!

You Wouldn't Want to be an American Pioneer!
Author: Jacqueline Morley
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2012-09-07
Genre: Frontier and pioneer life
ISBN: 9780531280256

Humorous look at American pioneers, and their nineteenth century journey across the western United States

The Laura Ingalls Wilder Companion

The Laura Ingalls Wilder Companion
Author: Annette Whipple
Publisher: Chicago Review Press
Total Pages: 213
Release: 2020-08-04
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 1641601698

Eager young readers can now discover and experience Laura Ingalls Wilder's books like never before. Author Annette Whipple encourages children to engage in pioneer activities while thinking deeper about the Ingalls and Wilder families as portrayed in the nine Little House books. The Laura Ingalls Wilder Companion provides brief introductions to each Little House book, chapter-by-chapter story guides, and "Fact or Fiction" sidebars, plus 75 activities, crafts, and recipes that encourage kids to "Live Like Laura" using easy-to-find supplies. Thoughtful questions help the reader develop appreciation and understanding of Wilder's stories. Every aspiring adventurer will enjoy this walk alongside Laura from the big woods to the golden years.

The Prairie Traveler

The Prairie Traveler
Author: Randolph Barnes Marcy
Publisher: New York, Harper
Total Pages: 354
Release: 1859
Genre: History
ISBN:

How to survive on the trails to California and Oregon: food, wagon train management, pack animals, bivouacs, Indian fighting, hunting, etc.

Daniel Boone

Daniel Boone
Author: John Mack Faragher
Publisher: Holt Paperbacks
Total Pages: 466
Release: 1993-11-15
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1429997060

Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for History for 1993 In the first and most reliable biography of Daniel Boone in more than fifty years, award-winning historian Faragher brilliantly portrays America's famous frontier hero. Drawing from popular narrative, the public record, scraps of documentation from Boone's own hand, and a treasure of reminiscence gathered by nineteenth-century antiquarians, Faragher uses the methods of new social history to create a portrait of the man and the times he helped shape. Blending themes from a much vitalized Western and frontier history with the words and ideas of ordinary people, Faragher has produced a book that will stand as the definitive life of Daniel Boone for decades to come, and one that illuminates the frontier world of Boone like no other.

American Pioneer Family Paper Dolls

American Pioneer Family Paper Dolls
Author: Tom Tierney
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Total Pages: 20
Release: 1996-01-01
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 0486290352

Step back into the mid-19th century with the rugged charm of this paper doll family of pioneers. Nine dolls come with 36 costumes for work and play — buckskins, calico frocks, cowboy outfits, and more — plus a cutout of a covered wagon. An introduction and notes offer descriptive details.

Polly Bemis, a Chinese American Pioneer

Polly Bemis, a Chinese American Pioneer
Author: Priscilla Wegars
Publisher:
Total Pages: 40
Release: 2003
Genre: History
ISBN:

Polly Bemis lived in Idaho for over 60 years. After her parents sold her, she was smuggled into this country, purchased by a Chinese man, and brought to Warren Idaho. Polly Married Charlie Bemis in 1894 and they settled on the remote Salmon River.