Children of the West: Family Life on the Frontier
"`I remember walking just ahead of that halted wagon.... I recall so vividly the feeling of wonderment and perplexity at the bigness of the world,'" says a woman of her frontier childhood. In Children of the West: Frontier Family Life, Cathy Luchetti's astute, readable text shares space with 19th- and early 20th-century photographs. Later chapters cover Native Americans, African-Americans, Asians and Mexicans. Luchetti (Women of the West) aptly details common and particular experiences of pioneer wives and children. " `My soul rebelled against having more children.... But my husband... persisted in his right to his sensual indulgences,' " laments one woman. "O! When I look back at those bright loving days... with Father, Mother, brothers and sisters gathered in groups round about, how glad I am to have been one of them," says a woman raised in Ohio.Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information, Inc.