frontier and pioneer life

In 1878, twelve-year-old Ida Kate and her widowed father welcome a mail-order bride and her baby to their Kansas homestead, but Ida Kate soon suspects that the bride is not the woman with whom Papa has corresponded.

In 1849, twelve-year-old California Morning Whipple, who renames herself Lucy, is distraught when her mother moves the family from Massachusetts to a rough California mining town.

Text and photographs tell the story of pioneer women: schoolmarms, ranchers, shopkeepers, doctors, mail-order brides, as well as, Native American women.

A brief biography of the author of the Little House books which were based on her own experiences living with her family on the frontier in the late 19th century.

Shows how the patterns and pattern names in patchwork reflect life on the frontier in the nineteenth century.

Describes the various types of transportation used by the early settlers.

Follows a family's emigration by prairie schooner from the East, across the plains to Kansas.

A pioneer girl sees pieces of her life sewn into the quilts she, her sister, and her mother make.

A woman describes her experiences living with her husband in a sod house on the Dakota prairie.

When Betsy Ward's family moves to Ohio from Connecticut in 1803, she brings along a sockful of coins to buy sheep so that she can gather wool, spin cloth, and make clothes to keep her children warm.