Bial, Raymond

Includes a brief biography of President Lincoln, a list of locations where he walked, and photographs of places, buildings, and objects significant in his life.

Daily life on a third generation family dairy farm in words and photographs, focusing on the work involved and on the lives of the individual family members.

Discusses the history and culture of the Cajuns, French-speaking people who settled deep in the woods and bayous of Louisiana.

Text and photographs describe the United States Corn Belt region and its harvest season.

Presents a children's study of the cultural and social life of the early American colonists including their homes and towns, businesses and trades, arts and crafts, and their associations and treaties with the Native American tribes on whose lands they settled.

Presents a children's study of early frontier settlements in America from the mid 1700s to the late 1800s and provides information on homesteads in the old Northwest Territories around the Great Lakes, their tools and crafts, businesses and trade, and ethnic diversity.

Text and photographs describe some of the thirty thousand deserted towns in the U.S. The author also examines why people settled in these places and why they left.

Chronicles the history of Nauvoo, Illinois, where many Mormans settled after fleeing persecution and violence in Missouri in 1839.

Presents an overview of the history of the Navajo Indians, with a detailed account of how the United States Government, represented by Kit Carson, forced them on a 300-mile walk from their homeland in the Southwest to a prison camp at Bosque Redondo, New Mexico, in 1864, and their eventual return home after the United States-Navajo Treaty of 1868.

Discusses the role of rivers and other waterways in the settlement of America, and looks at how increased use of water routes led to the building of canals.