Boy Life On The Prairie

Author : Hamlin Garland
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1961-01-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0803250703

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Boy Life on the Prairie by Hamlin Garland Pdf

Boy Life on the Prairie was first published in 1899, some eighteen years before the appearance of Hamlin Garland?s A Son of the Middle Border. The broad scope of the latter book, as B. R. McElderry, Jr., tells us in the introduction to this new edition of Boy Life, has overshadowed the ?earlier and better book of reminiscence dealing specifically with Garland?s boyhood experiences on an Iowa farm from 1869 to about 1881. When he wrote Boy Life on the Prairie Garland was much closer to the subject than he was in 1917, and he had the advantage of a more restricted aim: to tell directly and specifically what it was like to grow up in northeast Iowa in the years just after the Civil War. It may safely be said that no one else has given so clear and informative an account. When one considers other accounts of boyhood in nineteenth-century America?those of Aldrich, Clemens, Warner, and Howells, for example?one is impressed with the thoroughness and precision of Garland?s book. Aside from Main-Travelled Roads, Boy Life, is probably the best single book that Garland ever wrote.? The Bison Book edition is the first in more than fifty years to reproduce in full the 1899 text. It also includes an introduction addressed ?To My Young Readers? and the ?Author?s Notes? which appeared in the 1926 edition published by Allyn & Bacon. The forty-seven line drawings and six full-page illustrations by E. W. Deming are reproduced from the 1899 edition. In his introduction, Dr. McElderry provides a thorough and interesting analysis of Boy Life and compares it with the sketches written in 1888 which were Garland?s first attempt at reminiscence, as well as with A Son of the Middle Border.

Author : Hamlin Garland
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1965
Category : American fiction
ISBN : OCLC:1002887571

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Boy Life on the Prairie by Hamlin Garland Pdf

Author : Douglas K. Brewster
Publisher : FriesenPress
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2021-01-26
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781525581052

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A Lucky Prairie Boy by Douglas K. Brewster Pdf

Resilience. Persistence. Determination. Ingenuity. These are qualities farmers possess, and they were required to be a successful pioneer. They also happened to be some of the founding characteristics of the Brewster family. Douglas K. Brewster was born into a long line of Brewster men, proud of their American roots, proud to be pioneers in Saskatchewan, Canada, and proud to be farmers. Their lineage marks their contribution to the various communities—big and small—they’ve inhabited over the years. Doug grew up in Earl Grey, Saskatchewan, but the pursuit of knowledge carried him all across Saskatchewan and Alberta, as well as to other areas of Canada and the United States. A Lucky Prairie Boy is the story of Douglas K. Brewster, a farm kid with a rich family history and a keen mind for the bigger picture. Always looking to leave people, places, and inventions better than when he found them, Doug pursued an education in business and professional accounting before starting his manufacturing, construction and farming businesses. He was just as concerned about the farming industry as a whole as he was about his neighbour’s farm and livelihood. But this story is not just about Doug. Always reflecting on the bigger picture, where his family came from to where they are now and will go in the future, Doug intricately weaves his family’s history and his ancestors’ stories throughout his own life’s narrative. Through a gruelling but happy childhood, first and second chances at love, failed and successful business ventures, friends cherished and lost, and unexpected and ongoing health struggles, A Lucky Prairie Boy is a testament to the Brewster family.

Author : Barb Roenstock
Publisher : Thinkingdom
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2020-06-09
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781635923544

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Prairie Boy by Barb Roenstock Pdf

A Notable Social Studies Trade Book for Young People * A NSTA/CBC Best STEM Book Frank Lloyd Wright, a young boy from the prairie, becomes America's first world-famous architect in this inspirational nonfiction picture book introducing organic architecture -- a style he created based on the relationship between buildings and the natural world -- which transformed the American home. Frank Lloyd Wright loved the Wisconsin prairie where he was born, with its wide-open sky and waves of tall grass. As his family moved across the United States, young Frank found his own home in shapes: rectangles, triangles, half-moons, and circles. When he returned to his beloved prairie, Frank pursued a career in architecture. But he didn't think the Victorian-era homes found there fit the prairie landscape. Using his knowledge and love of shapes, Frank created houses more organic to the land. He redesigned the American home inside and out, developing a truly unique architecture style that celebrated the country's landscape and lifestyle. Author Barb Rosenstock and artist Christopher Silas Neal explore the early life and creative genius of architect Frank Lloyd Wright, highlighting his passion, imagination, and ingenuity.

Author : Hamlin Garland
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 454 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2016-06-22
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1332731708

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Boy Life on the Prairie (Classic Reprint) by Hamlin Garland Pdf

Excerpt from Boy Life on the Prairie I ploughed and sowed, bound grain on a station, herded cattle, speared fish, hunted prairie chickens, and killed rattlesnakes quite in the manner here set down, but I have been limited neither by the actualities of my own life, nor those of any other personality. All of the inci dents happened neither to me nor to Rance, but they were the experiences of other boys, and might have been mine. They are all typical of the time and place. In short, I have aimed to depict boy life, not boys; the characterization is incidental. Lincoln and Rance and Milton and Owen are to be taken as types rather than as individuals. The book is as faithful and as accurate as my memory and literary skill can make it. I hope it may prove sufficiently appealing to the men of my generation to enable them to relive with me the Splendid days of the unbroken prairie-lands of northern Iowa. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Author : William Kurelek
Publisher : Tundra Books (NY)
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : Canada
ISBN : 088776116X

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A Prairie Boy's Summer by William Kurelek Pdf

Summer on the prairies during the Depression years was not a vacation from school; it was hard work.

Author : MaryLou Driedger
Publisher : Heritage House Publishing Co
Page : 109 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2021-05-25
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781772033694

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Lost on the Prairie by MaryLou Driedger Pdf

Shortlisted, 2021 Manitoba Book Awards, Eileen McTavish Sykes Award for Best First Book Nominated, Manitoba Young Readers Choice Awards 2023, Sundogs Award Set between Kansas and Saskatchewan in 1907, this middle-grade novel follows a young boy who gets separated from his family en route to Canada and must find his way alone across the immense prairie landscape. Following the sudden death of his eldest brother, twelve-year-old Peter is chosen by his father to travel by train from Kansas to Saskatchewan to help set up the new family homestead. But when Peter's boxcar becomes uncoupled from the rest of the train somewhere in South Dakota, he finds himself lost and alone on the vast prairie. For a sheltered boy who has only read about adventures in books, Peter is both thrilled and terrified by the journey ahead. Along the way, he faces real dangers, from poisonous snakes to barn fires; meets people from all walks of life, including famous author Mark Twain; and grows more resourceful, courageous, and self-reliant as he makes his way across the Midwest to the Canadian border, eventually reaching his new home in Drake, Saskatchewan. The journey expands Peter's view of the world and shows him that the bonds of family and community, regardless of background, are universal and filled with love. Packed with excitement and adventure, this coming-of-age novel features a strong and likeable young protagonist and paints a realistic portrait of prairie life in the early twentieth century.

Author : Laura Ingalls Wilder
Publisher : Wildside Press LLC
Page : 137 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2020-04-21
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781479450459

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Little House on the Prairie by Laura Ingalls Wilder Pdf

"Little House on the Prairie" is an autobiographical children's novel by Laura Ingalls Wilder, published in 1935] It was the third novel published in the Little House series, continuing the story of the first, Little House in the Big Woods (1932), but not directly related to the second, Farmer Boy (1933). It chronicles the months the Ingalls spent on the Kansas prairie around the town of Independence.

Author : Hamlin Garland
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1967
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:601966204

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Boy Life on the Prairies by Hamlin Garland Pdf

Author : William Kurelek
Publisher : Turtleback Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1984-10-29
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0808549936

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Prairie Boy's Winter by William Kurelek Pdf

Text and twenty color paintings depict the rigors and simple pleasures during the stark 1930s. The narrative is colorful and interesting . . . the illustrations, one for each of the twenty brief flashbacks, are rich in texture and painted in the American folk-primitive style. -- Booklist

Author : Annette Whipple
Publisher : Chicago Review Press
Page : 203 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2020-08-04
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781641601696

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The Laura Ingalls Wilder Companion by Annette Whipple Pdf

Eager young readers can now discover and experience Laura Ingalls Wilder's books like never before. Author Annette Whipple encourages children to engage in pioneer activities while thinking deeper about the Ingalls and Wilder families as portrayed in the nine Little House books. The Laura Ingalls Wilder Companion provides brief introductions to each Little House book, chapter-by-chapter story guides, and "Fact or Fiction" sidebars, plus 75 activities, crafts, and recipes that encourage kids to "Live Like Laura" using easy-to-find supplies. Thoughtful questions help the reader develop appreciation and understanding of Wilder's stories. Every aspiring adventurer will enjoy this walk alongside Laura from the big woods to the golden years.

Author : Ralph Moody
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1991-01-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0803281781

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Little Britches by Ralph Moody Pdf

Ralph Moody was eight years old in 1906 when his family moved from New Hampshire to a Colorado ranch. Through his eyes we experience the pleasures and perils of ranching there early in the twentieth century. Auctions and roundups, family picnics, irrigation wars, tornadoes and wind storms give authentic color to Little Britches. So do adventures, wonderfully told, that equip Ralph to take his father's place when it becomes necessary. Little Britches was the literary debut of Ralph Moody, who wrote about the adventures of his family in eight glorious books, all available as Bison Books.

Author : Laura Ingalls Wilder
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2022-08-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:8596547191971

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Farmer Boy by Laura Ingalls Wilder Pdf

DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Farmer Boy" by Laura Ingalls Wilder. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 108 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2009-09-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0803225261

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Pioneer Girl by Anonim Pdf

Describes the early childhood and life of Grace Snyder, whose family owned a Nebraska homestead in the late nineteenth century and endured the hardships and dangers of the prairie.

Author : William Roy Brownridge
Publisher : Orca Book Publishers
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2013-10-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781554691722

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The Moccasin Goalie by William Roy Brownridge Pdf

Danny and his friends, Anita, Petou and Marcel, are typical youngsters—hockey mad. Danny's disability means that he can’t wear skates, but his leather moccasins work just fine and earn him the name “Moccasin Danny.” When a town team is formed, the friends are overjoyed, but only Marcel is picked for the team. Will Danny get the chance to prove that even though he can’t wear a pair of skates, he can still play the game? Originally released over a decade ago, The Moccasin Goalie is the first of three books in a well-loved series that includes The Final Game and Victory at Paradise Hill.