Growing Up in Pioneer America: 1800 to 1890

by Judith Pinkerton Josephson

Book Overview

Westward 'ho! was a cry heard by many children like eight-year-olds Virginia Watson and Jesse Applegate in the 1800s.As thousands of pioneers moved west to settle far from the safety of cities, their children moved with them.Driving cattle, collecting buffalo chips, cooking, mending, gathering water and food, and even burying their parents--children such as Elizabeth Pulsipher and Mary Goble bravely faced life on the wagon trains, and at the end of...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822506599
• ISBN13: 9780822506591
• Release Date: January 2003
• Publisher: Lerner Publications
• Length: 64 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 7.3" x 10.5"
• Age Range: 9 to 12 years
• Grade Range: Grades 4 to 7