My Folks Came in a Covered Wagon: A Treasury of Pioneer Stories
Entry/Object ID
L2017.28.19
Description
My Folks Came in a Covered Wagon: A Treasury of Pioneer Stories. Stories & poems from handed down in the families of Capper's Weekly Readers, first published in 1956 and reprinted for the bicentennial in 1976. Divided in to four sections: Perils of Pioneering; Pleasures of Pioneering; How the Pioneers Lived' and Memories of Big Events.
Includes:
--Indians
--Wild Animals
--Blizzards
--Prairie Fires and Plagues
--Doctors Were Far Away
--Outlaws at Large
--Treacherous Torrents
--Children Loved It
--Hospitality Was Warm
--Pioneers Had Funny bones
--When a Wagon Was home
--Dugouts, Soddies, and Shacks
--Vittles and Duds
--Grandma's 'Receipts'
--The Gold Rush
--Land Races Into Oklahoma
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Lexicon
Nomenclature 4.0
Nomenclature Primary Object Term
Book
Nomenclature Sub-Class
Other Documents
Nomenclature Class
Documentary Objects
Nomenclature Category
Category 08: Communication Objects
LOC Thesaurus for Graphic Materials
Covered wagons, Settlements
Search Terms
Western Migration, Gold Rush, Oklahoma Land Rush
Book Details
Author
Root, Louise Fowler and Alta Maxwell Huff, editors