Frontier Children
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Published: October 2002
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 176
ISBN-13: 9780806135052
Subjects: Children; Social history; c 1800 to c 1900; U.S. Local History - Western United States; Sociology Of Children; History; History - U.S.; History: American; Western & Pacific Coast states; United States - 19th Century/Old West; United States - State & Local - General; Modern - 20th Century
First sentence: Any mention of childhood on the American frontier readily brings to mind familiar, if stereotypical, images: an Indian infant securely laced in its cradleboard, a towheaded youngster bathed in shadows from a campfire, a barefoot student at a crude desk in a prairie schoolhouse.