Pioneer Girl

Pioneer Girl
Author:
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
Total Pages: 108
Release: 2009-09-01
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780803225268

Describes the early childhood and life of Grace Snyder, whose family owned a Nebraska homestead in the late nineteenth century and endured the hardships and dangers of the prairie.

The Challenge of the Prairie

The Challenge of the Prairie
Author: Hiram M. Drache
Publisher: Fargo : North Dakota Institute for Regional Studies, 1970, 1971 printing.
Total Pages: 420
Release: 1970
Genre: History
ISBN:

The prairies are one of the greatest gifts to humankind. On fertile and wide-open lands, pioneers built a civilization and culture that has fed millions. This book presents the challenges settlers faced along the Red River of Northern Minnesota where homesteaders settled on the unbroken lands where the price paid was toil, sweat, tears, and broken bodies.

Prairie Lotus

Prairie Lotus
Author: Linda Sue Park
Publisher: Clarion Books
Total Pages: 276
Release: 2020
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 132878150X

In this compelling, emotionally engaging novel set in 1880, a half-Chinese girl and her white father try to make a home in Dakota Territory, in the face of racism and resistance.

Into the Prairie

Into the Prairie
Author: Rosanne Bittner
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
Total Pages: 298
Release: 2010-03-02
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1429985232

With her Westward America! novels, beloved novelist Rosanne Bittner tells the personal stories of some of the brave pioneers who settled this country's early wilderness at great personal risk. Deftly combining soul-stirring romance with true American history, Bittner creates a world in which brave men and women make the greatest sacrifices possible to see their dreams made reality---and with them, the dreams of a young nation. Jonah Wilde has always had an untamed spirit, and he will stop at nothing to achieve his dream of building a farming empire in the wild prairies of Indiana. But in 1810, the Shawnee Indians still call these prairies home, and a disastrous and violent encounter with the Shawnee changes everything for the Wilde family. Jonah's young wife, Sadie, and his three-year-old son, Paul, are left to fend for themselves at Tippecanoe. Her dreams in tatters, Sadie doesn't know whether she'll have the strength to go on. Sadie and Paul's fate lies in the hands of the Powatomi leader, Windigo, and his Shawnee counterpart, the notorious Tecumseh. Will their lives be spared? And if they live, will they ever return to the life Sadie dreamt of with Jonah? Bestselling and beloved author Rosanne Bittner will break your heart as she brings to life the stories of the brave pioneers who settled, shaped, and died for the young nation of America. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Pioneers on the Prairie

Pioneers on the Prairie
Author: Jill McDougall
Publisher: Deep End
Total Pages: 32
Release: 2007
Genre: Pioneers
ISBN: 9781741203479

What was life really like for the millions of settlers who moved to the North American prairie in the late 1800s? Pioneers on the Prairie tells their story. It is a story of hardship, survival and courage. It also tells what happened to the 'Indians' - the Native American tribes that lived on the prairie before the pioneers arrived. At a deeper level, the book will help you think about the courage of all people who journey to create a new home - settlers, pioneers, migrants and refugees.

Prairie Pioneers

Prairie Pioneers
Author: Mrs. Harley Erickson
Publisher:
Total Pages: 653
Release:
Genre: Adams County (N.D.)
ISBN:

Pioneer Women

Pioneer Women
Author: Joanna L. Stratton
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 320
Release: 2013-05-28
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1476753598

From a rediscovered collection of autobiographical accounts written by hundreds of Kansas pioneer women in the early twentieth century, Joanna Stratton has created a collection hailed by Newsweek as “uncommonly interesting” and “a remarkable distillation of primary sources.” Never before has there been such a detailed record of women’s courage, such a living portrait of the women who civilized the American frontier. Here are their stories: wilderness mothers, schoolmarms, Indian squaws, immigrants, homesteaders, and circuit riders. Their personal recollections of prairie fires, locust plagues, cowboy shootouts, Indian raids, and blizzards on the plains vividly reveal the drama, danger and excitement of the pioneer experience. These were women of relentless determination, whose tenacity helped them to conquer loneliness and privation. Their work was the work of survival, it demanded as much from them as from their men—and at last that partnership has been recognized. “These voices are haunting” (The New York Times Book Review), and they reveal the special heroism and industriousness of pioneer women as never before.

O Pioneers!

O Pioneers!
Author: Willa Cather
Publisher: Modernista
Total Pages: 188
Release: 2024-07-15
Genre:
ISBN: 9181080794

When the young Swedish-descended Alexandra Bergson inherits her father's farm in Nebraska, she must transform the land from a wind-swept prairie landscape into a thriving enterprise. She dedicates herself completely to the land—at the cost of great sacrifices. O Pioneers! [1913] is Willa Cather's great masterpiece about American pioneers, where the land is as important a character as the people who cultivate it. WILLA CATHER [1873-1947] was an American author. After studying at the University of Nebraska, she worked as a teacher and journalist. Cather's novels often focus on settlers in the USA with a particular emphasis on female pioneers. In 1923, she was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for the novel One of Ours, and in 1943, she was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.