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About this book
Frontier Living brings to light every significant aspect of daily life on the American frontier, with vivid text and more than 200 wonderful drawings. Immerse yourself in the character and culture of the men and women who stood at the harsh cutting-edge of our civilization: their dwellings, clothing, food, furniture, household articles; their hunting, farming, schooling, transportation, government; their amusements, superstitions, and religion. In Frontier Living the reader finds the forest frontiersman in his log cabin, the ranchero in his casa, the sodbuster in his prairie sod house. Here is the keel-boatman, the cotton farmer, the fur trader, the mountain man, the forty-niner, the cowhand - each helping to shape a new and distinctive way from untamed country. The flintlock gun, the Kentucky rifle, the freight and Conestoga wagons, the stagecoach, the Ohio flatboat, the first steamboat and steam railroad, are all reconstructed here in exact detail.This informative, authentic re-creation of the American frontier, seen in relation to its historic perspective, offers a major contribution toward an understanding of the American character.
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Table of contents
- Acknowledgments
- Foreword
- 1. THE DEEPWATER FRONTIER
- 2. THE PIEDMONT
- 3. THE SOUTHERN VALLEYS
- 4. THE GREAT SALIENT
- 5. ROAD AND RIVER
- 6. THE OLD NORTHWEST
- 7. THE COTTON FRONTIER
- 8. SHRINKING DISTANCES
- 9. BEYOND THE MISSISSIPPI
- 10. CARAVANS TO SANTA FE
- 11. THE FUR TRADE AND THE MOUNTAIN MEN
- 12. THE BITTER ROAD TO OREGON
- 13. THE HARRIED SAINTS
- 14. ALTA CALIFORNIA
- 15. EL DORADO
- 16. TWO THOUSAND MILES
- 17. THE COW HUNT AND THE COWHAND
- SODDIES
- 19. THE RUN
- About The Author