Always Plenty to Do: Growing Up on a Farm in the Long Ago

by Pamela Riney-Kehrberg

Book Overview

The story of childhood on America's farms in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, Always Plenty to Do is a journey back to America's breadbasket. Fleshing out the contours of everyday life, it reveals what farm children saw, heard, smelled, tasted, and felt--and how they worked, played, and learned. Drawing upon rich primary sources from the Great Plains and Midwest, Riney-Kehrberg combines biography and historical narrative to invite...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0896726924
• ISBN13: 9780896726925
• Release Date: September 2011
• Publisher: Texas Tech University Press
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.2" x 8.2"
• Age Range: 9 to 11 years
• Grade Range: Grades 4 to 6