A Settlers Year

Author : Kathleen Ernst
Publisher : Wisconsin Historical Society
ISBN 13 : 0870207156
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Settler's Year written by Kathleen Ernst and published by Wisconsin Historical Society. This book was released on 2015-07-31 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This is a book with great meaning for those of us who grew up on farms, and a book to be shared with young people eager to know more about pioneer life." --Jerry Apps, author of "Old Farm: A History" and "Whispers and Shadows: A Naturalist's Memoir" "A Settler's Year" provides a rare glimpse into the lives of early immigrants to the upper Midwest. Evocative photographs taken at Old World Wisconsin, the country's largest outdoor museum of rural life, lushly illustrate stories woven by historian, novelist, and poet Kathleen Ernst and compelling firsthand accounts left by the settlers themselves. In this beautiful book, readers will discover the challenges and triumphs found in the seasonal rhythms of rural life in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. As they turn the pages--traveling from sprawling farm to tidy crossroads village, and from cramped and smoky cabins to gracious, well-furnished homes--they'll experience the back-straining chores, cherished folk traditions, annual celebrations, and indomitable spirit that comprised pioneer life. At its heart "A Settler's Year" is about people dreaming of, searching for, and creating new homes in a new land. This moving book transports us back to the pioneer era and inspires us to explore the stories found on our own family trees.

Author : Michael E. Stevens
Publisher : Wisconsin Historical Society
ISBN 13 : 087020890X
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Making of Pioneer Wisconsin written by Michael E. Stevens and published by Wisconsin Historical Society. This book was released on 2018-09-19 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the mid-1830s through the 1850s, more than a half million people settled in Wisconsin. While traveling in ships and wagons, establishing homes, and forming new communities, these men, women, and children recorded their experiences in letters, diaries, and newspaper articles. In their own words, they revealed their fears, joys, frustrations, and hopes for life in this new place. The Making of Pioneer Wisconsin provides a unique and intimate glimpse into the lives of these early settlers, as they describe what it felt like to be a teenager in a wagon heading west or an isolated young wife living far from her friends and family. Woven together with context provided by historian Michael E. Stevens, these first-person accounts form a fascinating narrative that deepens our ability to understand and empathize with Wisconsin’s early pioneers.

Author : Old Settlers' Association of Johnson County
Publisher : Рипол Классик
ISBN 13 : 5871289517
Total Pages : 31 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Year book of the Old settlers' association written by Old Settlers' Association of Johnson County and published by Рипол Классик. This book was released on with total page 31 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : David G. McCullough
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781982131661
Total Pages : 331 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Pioneers written by David G. McCullough and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "As part of the Treaty of Paris, in which Great Britain recognized the new United States of America, Britain ceded the land that comprised the immense Northwest Territory, a wilderness empire northwest of the Ohio River containing the future states of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, and Wisconsin. A Massachusetts minister named Manasseh Cutler was instrumental in opening this vast territory to veterans of the Revolutionary War and their families for settlement. Included in the Northwest Ordinance were three remarkable conditions: freedom of religion, free universal education, and most importantly, the prohibition of slavery. In 1788 the first band of pioneers set out from New England for the Northwest Territory under the leadership of Revolutionary War veteran General Rufus Putnam. They settled in what is now Marietta on the banks of the Ohio River. McCullough tells the story through five major characters: Cutler and Putnam; Cutler's son Ephraim; and two other men, one a carpenter turned architect, and the other a physician who became a prominent figure in American science. They and their families created a town in a primeval wilderness, while coping with such frontier realities as trees of a size never imagined, floods, fires, wolves, bears, even an earthquake, all the while negotiating a contentious and sometimes hostile relationship with the native people. Like so many of McCullough's subjects, they let no obstacle deter or defeat them. Drawn in great part from a rare and all-but-unknown collection of diaries and letters by the key figures, The Pioneers is a uniquely American story of people whose ambition and courage led them to remarkable accomplishments."--Dust jacket.

Author : Vilhelm Moberg
Publisher : Minnesota Historical Society Press
ISBN 13 : 9780873517157
Total Pages : 399 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Settlers written by Vilhelm Moberg and published by Minnesota Historical Society Press. This book was released on 2008-10-14 with total page 399 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Simon Kander
Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 0486145263
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Settlement Cook Book 1903 written by Simon Kander and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2012-11-07 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Imparting all the warmth and fragrance of an old-fashioned, turn-of-the-century kitchen, The Settlement Cook Book was originally devised as a cooking and homemaking primer for newly arrived immigrants. Filled with hundreds of recipes for good eating, this back-to-basics book is also good reading. A blend of hardy, old-fashioned dishes and simple recipes that will fit today's demanding lifestyles, the text covers everything from making roast chicken (with chestnut dressing) to the best way to dust a room. Clearly detailed, easy-to-read directions tell how to create such tasty fare as griddle cakes, shrimp Creole, and mulligatawny soup; cheese fondue, oyster a la poulette, and other Continental specialties; as well as ethnic foods such as gefilte fish and matzo ball soup. Sections on preserving, canning, and pickling are interspersed with quaint "lessons" on how to sterilize milk, build a fire, and discern fresh eggs from stale ones. A delightful culinary education from the days before convection ovens and "dream kitchens," The Settlement Cook Book is a treasury of Americana, a delightful sampling of cultural history that will enchant lovers of old cookbooks and well-prepared foods.

Author : Alexander Harris
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 456 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Settlers and Convicts; Or, Recollections of Sixteen Years' Labour in the Australian Backwoods written by Alexander Harris and published by . This book was released on 1847 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Few references to early contact.

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 458 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Settlers and Convicts; or, Recollections of sixteen years' labour in the Australian Backwoods. By an Emigrant Mechanic [i.e. Alexander Harris]. written by and published by . This book was released on 1847 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : South Africa. Office of Census and Statistics
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1064 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Official Year Book of the Union written by South Africa. Office of Census and Statistics and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 1064 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Rebecca Gablé
Publisher : Amazon Crossing
ISBN 13 : 9781611090819
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Settlers of Catan written by Rebecca Gablé and published by Amazon Crossing. This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A historical novel based on the board game 'The Settlers of Catan.'"