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A child's day (Historic communities)
By Bobbie Kalman. 1994
Between waking up in the morning and going to bed at night, pioneer children John and Emily enjoy a full…
day of simple pleasures and hard work. We watch them go to school, do their chores, celebrate a birthday, and attend a country fair. At every turn, we learn what they wear, what they eat, what stories they read, and what toys they play with. Grades 3-6. 1994.Fort life (Historic communities.)
By Bobbie Kalman, David Schimpky. 1994
Windbreak: a woman rancher on the northern plains
By Linda M Hasselstrom. 1987
Provides a detailed description of life on the plains of South Dakota. Recounts the daily events over the course of…
a year, rounding up cattle, mending fences and feeding animals. c1987.Wilderness journey: reliving the adventures of Canada's voyageurs
By Ian Wilson. 2000
The Wilsons combine the lively account of their wilderness journey with fascinating stories of voyageur life 200 years ago. They…
travelled northwest by canoe on lakes and rivers from Lake Superior to northern Saskatchewan, then by dog team across Saskatchewan and Manitoba. 2000.Ways harsh & wild: [adventure and hardship during the Yukon gold rush]
By Doris Andersen. 1977
Voice of the pioneer
By Bill McNeil. 1978
Pioneers of all sorts - prospectors, scientists, homesteaders, bush pilots, teachers, and many others - tell their fascinating stories here,…
as they have told them on Canada's best-loved radio programme. 1978.Voices from the wilderness: the frontiersman's own story
By Thomas Froncek. 1974
True accounts of America's frontiersmen who traveled in search of independence, adventure, and freedom. A few of the resourceful characters…
included are Daniel Boone, Davy Crockett, Kit Carson and Buffalo Bill Cody. 1974.Trail to the interior (Laurentian library ; #27)
By R. M Patterson. 1966
Through the use of diaries, letters, newspapers and personal narratives, Patterson tells the history of the Cassiar District of British…
Columbia, and of the men and women who pioneered the area. 1970, c1966.The silent song: a daughter's tribute to a reluctant pioneer
By Marjorie Wilkins Campbell. 1999
The rancher takes a wife: a true account of life on the last great cattle frontier
By Richmond P Hobson. 2015
The interior of British Columbia in the early 20th century is a jungle of swamps, rivers, and grasslands. It's a…
vast and still barely explored wilderness, whose principal citizens are timber wolves, moose, giant grizzly bears, and the odd human being. Into this forbidding land, Rich Hobson, Pioneer cattle rancher, brings Gloria, his city-raised bride. Her adjustment to life in the wilderness is sure to be difficult, as is her relationship with Rich and his backwoods cronies. Will Gloria ever find that she belongs in this strange, harsh land? Sequel to "Nothing too good for a cowboy". 2015.The real Klondike Kate
By T. Ann Brennan. 1990
According to the author the real Klondike Kate was not the boisterous dance hall queen of legend, but a young…
woman from New Brunswick named Katherine Ryan. Adventurous for her time, she walked into the North over the rugged Stikine Trail and was an early suffragette who became an important political figure in the North. 1990.The promised land: settling the West 1896-1914
By Pierre Berton. 1984
The perilous journey of the Donner Party
By Marian Calabro. 1999
1846. Letters and diary entries describe twelve-year-old Virginia Reed and her family's journey by wagon train to California with the…
Donner clan. The group is stranded in deep snow in the Sierra Nevada mountains, and some desperate travelers resort to cannibalism. Traces the survivors' remaining years. Grades 5-8 and older readers. 1999.The life and legacy of Annie Oakley (The Oklahoma western biographies ; #7)
By Glenda Riley. 1994
A portrait of the legendary sharpshooter and archetypal western woman. Explores the life of this complex personality who overcame shyness…
and poverty to become an international star in Buffalo Bill Cody's Wild West Show. Evaluates her influence on the development of feminism. 1994.The judge's wife: memoirs of a British Columbia pioneer
By Louise Wilson, Jean Barman, Eunice M. L Harrison, Ronald B Hatch. 2002
An account of life in early British Columbia from the 1860s to the first decade of the 20th century. The…
wife of Judge Eli Harrison, one of the province's foremost lawyers and judges, Mrs. Harrison gives intimate glimpses into daily life in Victoria, Nanaimo and New Westminster, and her visits as a young woman to Granville (as Vancouver was then called) for dances and picnics. She also includes descriptions of her husband's many hazardous trips over the Brigade Trail into the interior of the province to dispense frontier justice. 2002.Clearing in the West: my own story
By Nellie L McClung. 1965
Trekking west with her family in 1880, the author grew up on a Manitoba homestead and taught in prairie schools…
until her marriage. Also provides a clear picture of the important role women played in the frontier communities. 1965.Notes from the century before: a journal from British Columbia
By Edward Hoagland. 1969
Love song to the Plains (A Regions of America book.)
By Mari Sandoz. 1961
A gallery of dudes
By Marshall Sprague. 1967
Nine travellers to the west between 1833 and the 1890's are immortalized in this entertaining piece of scholarly Americana. Only…
one of the dudes, Theodore Roosevelt, was a native American. 1967.Originally published in 1923, these stories tell of the pioneer women who helped to settle Manitoba. Included are the tales…
of the first European women in the West, and the recollections of Mrs. William Cowan, the oldest living settler, and Sister Laurent, who arrived in St. Boniface in 1850. 1987.