Title: Children of the western plains
First published: 2003
Description: This book tells 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.
Subjects: Biography, History, Pioneer children, Immigrant children, Children, Social life and customs, Frontier and pioneer life, Social conditions, Children, united states, Frontier and pioneer life, great plains, Great plains, biography
Places: Great Plains
Time periods: 19th century
LC classification: F596 .H6835 2003