How they lived

In the Massachusetts Bay Colony's bustling seaport city, young Paul Revere saw about him the heart of Colonial America. Here is Boston as he and other early patriots knew it.

Tells of the building of Bent's Fort, a trading post along the Santa Fe trail, and describes work there, the wagon trains, Indians who traded there, and life at the fort in summer and winter.

An account of the "Mountain men" who lived in the Rockies, trapped beaver, and discovered the routes that were used later by Americans moving westward.

A description of the way of life of the Klondike gold seekers, including their hardships, mining methods, successes, and failures.

Describes the first years of the Pilgrims of Plymouth colony, showing how their thrift and industry subdued a wilderness and established a new nation. Based on the journal of Governor William Bradford.

A portrait of the prosperous Dutch settlement established by the Dutch West Indies Company on the southern end of Manhattan Island, describing family life, customs, industry and trade, and dangers and hardships.

Recreates a long outmoded way of life whose participants played an important part in the settlement, trade, and development of America's frontier. Describes what the flatboatmen wore, how they celebrated, and how they passed their days on the river.

Tells of the building of Bent's Fort, a trading post along the Santa Fe trail, and describes work there, the wagon trains, Indians who traded there, and life at the fort in summer and winter.

Descriptions of life in Philadelphia in 1787, the time of the Constitutional Convention covering customs, travel, dress, market, and fire fighting.