Children of the Western Plains - The Nineteenth-Century Experience

What life was like for youngsters who lived on the Great Plains in nineteenth-century frontier life. Chapters address a breadth of experiences and perceptions: why families came to the Great Plains and where they decided to settle; how families and communities were organized for education, work, and play; how health care, accidents, and mortality affected childhoods; and what children experienced outside the home. As much as possible, Ms. Holt lets the children speak for themselves. American Childhoods Series.

List of contents

Part 1 Introduction Part 2 Perceptions and Expectations 9 Part 3 Travel and Settlement 33 Part 4 Family and Community 57 Part 5 Education and School Building 81 Part 6 The Work of Children 106 Part 7 Play and Leisure 128 Part 8 Matters of Life and Death 149 Part 9 Common Threads 171 Part 10 Notes 177 Part 11 A Note on Sources 205 Part 12 Index 211

About the author

By Marilyn Irvin Holt

Product details

• Authors: Marilyn Irvin Holt
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2019
• EAN: 9781566635400
• ISBN: 978-1-56663-540-0
• No. of pages: 224
• Dimensions: 157 mm x 235 mm x 19 mm
• Weight: 554 g
• Series: American Childhoods Series; American Childhoods; American Childhoods Series; American Childhoods
• Subjects: Fiction > Gift books, albums, perpetual calendars, postcard booklets; Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous