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Author Gintzler, A. S.

Title Rough & ready homesteaders / A.S. Gintzler ; [illustrations by Chris Brigman].

Publication Info. Santa Fe, N.M. : J. Muir Publications ; Emeryville, Calif. : Distributed to the book trade by Publishers Group West, 1994.

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Location Call No. Status
 Newington, Lucy Robbins Welles Library - Children's Department  J978 GINTZLER    Check Shelf
Edition First paperback edition.
Description 46 pages : illustrations maps ; 28 cm
Note Includes index.
Summary This book presents a description of the life of homesteaders on the Great Plains, including who they were, what hardships they faced, and what type of entertainment they enjoyed.
Contents The Great Plains -- Homesteading the Plains -- Trails and waterways West -- Farming on the Plains -- Native peoples of the Plains -- The Range Wars -- Law and disorder on the frontier -- African American homesteaders -- Women on the Plains -- Songs of the sodbusters -- Traveling salesmen and entertainers.
Subject Frontier and pioneer life -- Great Plains -- Juvenile literature.
Great Plains -- History -- Juvenile literature.
Frontier and pioneer life -- Great Plains.
Great Plains -- History.
Added Author Brigman, Chris, illustrator.
Added Title Homesteaders
Rough and ready homesteaders
ISBN 1562611542
9781562611545
1562612336 paperback
9781562612337 paperback
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