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As your historical romance or mystery unfolds in nineteenth-century Boston -- or a dusty farm town in the American West -- your characters sit down to the breakfast table... And your story grinds to an abrupt halt. What should they be eating? Or wearing to attend church later this Sunday morning?<br> <br> Help has arrived. Marc McCutcheon illuminates everyday life in the 1800's decade by decade, in the pages of this dictionary-style reference guide. In this comprehensive volume, you'll find hundreds of otherwise obscure facts about: <ul> <li>Popular slang -- from the range to the underworld.</li> <li>How to furnish a farmhouse or outfit a barn.</li> <li>How much it costs for a shot of whiskey or to mail a letter.</li> <li>Styles for the fashionable -- and not-so-fashionable.</li> <li>Courtship and marriage rituals.</li> <li>Popular food and drink -- including brand names.</li> </ul> Beginning with a lively overview, major sections contain dozens of quotes from magazines and books published during the time, illustrating the proper context for terms in everyday speech. Quick-reference chronologies of events, popular magazines and books and songs make fact-checking easy.<br> <br> Take

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Author

McCutcheon, Marc

Publisher

Cincinnati, Ohio: Writer's Digest Books

Published

1993

Language

EN

ISBN

9781582970639

Category

history

Subjects

Fiction, Reference, Historical Fiction

Rating

3.85 / 5 (56 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14