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Author | : Rose Wilder Lane |
Publisher | : James Clarke & Co. |
Total Pages | : 136 |
Release | : 1979 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780718824280 |
Following the lives of Molly and David, the 'young pioneers' who embark upon a journey to the West, this novel is a story of spiritual strength and family unity in the face of difficulty and hardship. Molly and David played together as children and said they would get married as soon as they were old enough. And sure enough, when she was sixteen and he two years older, they married, and together they set out for the West, where the country had not yet been settled and they might find good land to farm. David's father gave them a team of horses, a wagon and his blessing; Molly's parents gave blankets and pillows, a ham and a cheese and some maple sugar, a pot and a pan and a skillet, and a copy of Tennyson's Poems. With David's gun and fiddle, and Molly's needles and thread, they had all they needed. Snug in the dugout under the prairie, their baby boy was born on Molly's seventeenth birthday. Soon the wheat was ripe and high and full of promise for the baby's future, a future that would be warm and safe and bright. The grasshoppers wiped out that promise. Within two days there was no wheat left - no crop, no money, no horses, and no way of providing against the bitter winter. Simply and vividly told, this story grew out of real experience. This is a novel which has moved and fascinated readers for more than fifty years, and has been translated into twenty languages.
Author | : Ginger Wadsworth |
Publisher | : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
Total Pages | : 216 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 9780618234752 |
Here are the moving stories of these young pioneers, told in their own words through letters home, diaries, and memoirs.
Author | : Rose Wilder Lane |
Publisher | : Harper Collins |
Total Pages | : 196 |
Release | : 1998-09-05 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 0064406989 |
A story of frontier love and courage... Newlyweds Molly and David are only sixteen and eighteen years old when they pack up their wagon and head west across the plains in search of a new homestead. At first their new life is full of promise: The wheat is high, the dugout is warm and cozy, and a new baby is born to share in their happiness. Then disaster strikes, and David must go east for the winter to find work. Molly is left alone with the baby -- with nothing but her own courage to face the dangers of the harsh prairie winter.
Author | : John G. Turner |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 511 |
Release | : 2012-09-25 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0674067312 |
Brigham Young was a rough-hewn New York craftsman whose impoverished life was electrified by the Mormon faith. Turner provides a fully realized portrait of this spiritual prophet, viewed by followers as a protector and by opponents as a heretic. His pioneering faith made a deep imprint on tens of thousands of lives in the American Mountain West.
Author | : Charles H. Pearson |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 352 |
Release | : 1870 |
Genre | : Animal welfare |
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Author | : Paul C. Mishler |
Publisher | : Columbia University Press |
Total Pages | : 200 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780231110440 |
-- Mark Greif, Times Literary Supplement
Author | : Jan Cleere |
Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages | : 200 |
Release | : 2007-11-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 146174847X |
From the Diary ofAnne Frank to Anne of Green Gables, young women love to read stories about real girls who faced incredible challenges and shared indelible truths about the human spirit. Jan Cleere has compiled a wonderful collection of such stories, for a wide range of readers from ten-year-old girls to older readers fascinated by women’s history. Meet Laurette Lovell, born in 1869 with a severe leg deformity, who at age thirteen started on her path to be a renowned pottery artist and painter. Edith Bass, born in 1896, began wrangling mules before the age of nine, leading pack strings up and down the dangerous paths into the Grand Canyon. These two young women, and nine others, are profiled magnificently alongside historic photographs. Today’s readers love to read bold adventures. They’ll never forget these stories of real girls who conquered the West in their own style, spending most or all of their childhood in Arizona. Jan Cleere is a historical researcher and the author of More Than Petticoats: Remarkable Nevada Women, among other books. She lives in Oro Valley, Arizona.
Author | : Wenguang Huang |
Publisher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 277 |
Release | : 2012-04-26 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1101580666 |
A Washington Post Best of 2012 pick Three generations of a family living under one roof reflect the dramatic transformations of an entire society in this memoir of life in 20th century China When Wenguang Huang was nine years old, his grandmother became obsessed with her own death. Fearing cremation, she extracted from her family the promise to bury her after she died. This was in Xi’an, a city in central China, in the 1970s, when a national ban on all traditional Chinese practices, including burials, was strictly enforced. But Huang’s grandmother was persistent, and two years later, his father built her a coffin. He also appointed his older son, Wenguang, as coffin keeper, a distinction that meant, among other things, sleeping next to the coffin at night. Over the next fifteen years, the whole family was consumed with planning Grandma’s burial, a regular source of friction and contention, with the constant risk of being caught by the authorities. Many years after her death, the family’s memories of her coffin still loom large. Huang, now living and working in America, has come to realize how much the concern over the coffin has affected his upbringing and shaped the lives of everyone in the family. Lyrical and poignant, funny and heartrending, The Little Red Guard is the powerful tale of an ordinary family finding their way through turbulence and transition.
Author | : Mary Barmeyer O'Brien |
Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages | : 201 |
Release | : 2015-10-05 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1493017276 |
Driven by the promise of prosperity and opportunity on the frontier, thousands of men and women traveled west in the mid-1800s to forge a new life. Accompanying them were their children, wide-eyed and excited about the adventures that awaited them as they headed toward the setting sun. Little did they know how treacherous and grueling the trip would be. The toil and danger of overland travel forced parents to depend on their children to assist in their ultimate survival. Girls were called upon to help cook, set up and break camp, and mind younger siblings. Boys were called upon to help drive the wagons, herd the oxen and horses, assist with wagon repairs, and guard the camp at night. Even with their endless chores, many pioneer boys and girls found time to record the details of their journeys in letters and diaries. This collection of short episodes from the lives of these children on the trail offers fresh perspectives on the experience.
Author | : Charles Henry Pearson |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 344 |
Release | : 2018-10-02 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9783337659462 |