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About this item
Highlights
- "Peppered with letters and diaries written by children and liberally illustrated with photographs of children in their best clothes, or hard at work, this is a book for the entire family to read, look at, savor, and enjoy.
- Author(s): Linda Peavy & Ursula Smith
- 176 Pages
- History, United States
Description
Book Synopsis
"Peppered with letters and diaries written by children and liberally illustrated with photographs of children in their best clothes, or hard at work, this is a book for the entire family to read, look at, savor, and enjoy."--American Cowboy
Enriched by over 200 vintage photographs, Frontier Children is a visual and verbal montage of childhood in the nineteenth-century West. From a wide range of primary and secondary sources, Linda Peavy and Ursula Smith, well known for their books on western women, have brought together stories and images that erase the stereotypes and bring to life the infinite variety of the experience of growing up in the American West.Review Quotes
"By all means buy Frontier Children for the pictures...But you may find yourself as interested in the text as in the illustrations. Peavy and Smith combed through hundreds of sources to tell the harrowing, humorous stories of children who participated in many of the same activities as their adult counterparts, but from the parallel universe of childhood."--Book Talk
"Linda Peavy and Ursula Smith lead us into two territories that are both intimate and alien. The first is the American frontier, which haunts our memory as a place of national beginnings...The second territory is that of individual origins--our childhoods. We form our personal myths, the stories that explain who we are, through remembered moments from the age of seven or twelve...Like our selected frontier episodes, these personal memories shaped us, we believe; and so they are still with us...The experiences of frontier children are a distinctively American variation of what draws us to all history."--Elliott West
"To the history of children, an emerging field that is both challenging and exciting, Frontier Children is a valuable contribution."--Pacific Northwest Quarterly
Dimensions (Overall): 11.04 Inches (H) x 8.04 Inches (W) x .45 Inches (D)
Weight: 1.34 Pounds
Suggested Age: 22 Years and Up
Number of Pages: 176
Genre: History
Sub-Genre: United States
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Theme: 19th Century
Format: Paperback
Author: Linda Peavy & Ursula Smith
Language: English
Street Date: November 11, 2002
TCIN: 88975676
UPC: 9780806135052
Item Number (DPCI): 247-56-8133
Origin: Made in the USA or Imported
Shipping details
Estimated ship dimensions: 0.45 inches length x 8.04 inches width x 11.04 inches height
Estimated ship weight: 1.34 pounds
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