Description
"Peppered with letters and diaries written by children and liberally illustrated with photographs of children in their best clothes, or hard at work, this is a book for the entire family to read, look at, savor, and enjoy."--American Cowboy
Enriched by over 200 vintage photographs, Frontier Children is a visual and verbal montage of childhood in the nineteenth-century West. From a wide range of primary and secondary sources, Linda Peavy and Ursula Smith, well known for their books on western women, have brought together stories and images that erase the stereotypes and bring to life the infinite variety of the experience of growing up in the American West.Author: Linda Peavy, Ursula Smith
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Published: 11/11/2002
Pages: 176
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.34lbs
Size: 11.04h x 8.04w x 0.45d
ISBN13: 9780806135052
ISBN10: 0806135050
BISAC Categories:
- History | United States | 19th Century
- Social Science | Children's Studies
- Photography | Subjects & Themes | Regional (see also Travel | Pictorials)