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Settlers' children : growing up on the Great Plains by Hampsten, Elizabeth, 1932- is a book available to read on EtoBox.

What is Settlers' children : growing up on the Great Plains about?

xii, 252 pages : 23 cm Letters, diaries, reminiscences, and oral interviews explore what it was like for children in the first settlement generation of the Great Plains Includes bibliographical references (page 247) and index Preface -- Westward "for the children" -- Children at work -- Schooling mostly meant doing without -- Children in danger: "It seemed as if all the fun was taken out of life" -- "Though I am young, a little one": parents preoccupation with their children -- Happy childhoods -- Martha and Ole Lima -- Over Fool's Hill: children in three families -- Children of the Middle Border -- Notes

Author

Hampsten, Elizabeth, 1932-

Publisher

Norman: University of Oklahoma Press

Published

1991

Language

EN

ISBN

9780585170138

Subjects

History, Sociology, Science