One Room - Schools and Schoolteachers in the Pioneer West

Informationen zum Autor By Gail L. Jenner Klappentext A fond recollection of the West’s one-room school houses, this book celebrates an American institution with stories of heroism and perseverance. Illustrated with archival images of classrooms and students, One Room reflects the earnest striving and innocent hopes of pioneers forging communities. Learn about the unsung and yet mythical frontiersmen and women who “civilized” the west, the children who attended one-room schools, and the teachers who faced hardships on the frontier, including blizzards, fires, and teaching the three “R’s.” Zusammenfassung A fond recollection of the West's one-room school houses! this book celebrates an American institution with stories of heroism and perseverance. Illustrated with archival images of classrooms and students! One Room reflects the earnest striving and innocent hopes of pioneers forging communities.

Product details

• Authors: Gail L Jenner, Gail L. Jenner
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.10.2018
• EAN: 9781493036684
• ISBN: 978-1-4930-3668-4
• No. of pages: 192
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > Education system; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Alaska, New Mexico, Wyoming, Utah, Colorado, Nevada, Montana, Arizona, Washington, South Dakota, Texas, Nebraska, Kansas, California, Oregon, Oklahoma, Idaho, North Dakota, HISTORY / Study & Teaching, Native Americans, History of the Americas, Schools, US West, Western & Pacific Coast states, Gold Rush, western frontier, western expansion, soddie, one room schoolhouse, Laurel Ingalls Wilder, Little House on the Prairie, pioneer West, schoolteacher