Pioneers (History Firsthand)

Review
Booklist : "The contributions in the eclectic mix come from individuals such as Eleanor Roosevelt, actress June Havoc, and hobo Box-Car Bertha, with each person's perspective taking readers directly into the experience through details and eye-opening observations."
-- Booklist (May 2001)
School Library Journal : "Following a thorough introduction that provides novice historians with background information, this series entry uses primary-source documents organized in a coherent chronology. With its important documents, this work will help budding historians and researchers make sense of a complex time."
-- School Library Journal (July 2002)
School Library Journal : "These are in keeping with the aim of the series, to personalize history and, in this way, make it more meaningful."
-- School Library Journal (May 2002)
Booklist : "The History Firsthand series presents excerpts from period documents, organized under broad subject heading and introduced by a paragraph of background. Each book includes a few black-and-white illustrations."
-- Booklist (Febraury 2001)

Book Description
From gearing up for the journey to homesteading in unsettled regions, pioneer men and women describe their hopes and fears as they claim their own piece of land in the nation?s expanding frontier.

History Firsthand - Pioneers (paperback edition) (History Firsthand),Mark McKain,Greenhaven Press,0737710772,19th century,Biography,Children's Books/Young Adult Misc. Nonfiction,Children: Young Adult (Gr. 7-9),Frontier and pioneer life,History,History - General,History - United States/19th Century,Juvenile Nonfiction,Juvenile literature,Pioneers,West (U.S.),History / General,Humanities

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