Children of the Western Plains

The Nineteenth-Century Experience

Marilyn Irvin Holt (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

256 Seiten

2003
Ivan R Dee, Inc (Verlag)
978-1-56663-540-0 (ISBN)

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On December 7, 1828, Lewis Bissell Dougherty was born at Cantonment Leavenworth, the military post of the Missouri River. For the rest of his life, Dougherty carried a footnote to his name: he was one of the first white children to be born in Kansas. These "first" children came to be celebrated as white America's first steps onto the Western frontier. In Children of the Western Plains, Marilyn Holt rescues the experience of children from the usual adult perspectives on Western history. Her book is the first in a new series that will emphasize the experience of children during different times and at different locales in the American past. The books will be abundantly illustrated with black-and-white photographs and drawings. They will take advantage of primary source materials, reminiscences, documents, and secondary works in telling the story of American children throughout the nation's history. In Ms. Holt's book, she explores what life was like for youngsters who lived on the Great Plains in nineteenth-century frontier life. She is especially interested in how they were raised, how they were influenced by their environment, and what sort of independence they experienced while growing up. Her chapters address a breadth of experiences and perceptions: why families came to the Great Plains and where they decided to settle; how families and communities were organized for education, work, and play; how health care, accidents, and mortality affected childhoods; and what children experienced outside the home. As much as possible, she lets the children speak for themselves. This is their story. With 25 black-and-white photographs.

Marilyn Irvin Holt was born in southern Illinois, where her parents still maintain a farm. She studied at Eastern Illinois University and the University of Illinois at Springfield, and is a former editor for the Illinois State Historical Library and a former director of publications for the Kansas State Historical Society. She has also written Indian Orphanages; Linoleum, Better Babies and the Modern Farm Woman; and The Orphan Trains. She lives in Abilene, Kansas.

Part 1 Introduction
Part 2 Perceptions and Expectations 9
Part 3 Travel and Settlement 33
Part 4 Family and Community 57
Part 5 Education and School Building 81
Part 6 The Work of Children 106
Part 7 Play and Leisure 128
Part 8 Matters of Life and Death 149
Part 9 Common Threads 171
Part 10 Notes 177
Part 11 A Note on Sources 205
Part 12 Index 211

Erscheint lt. Verlag	18.10.2003
Reihe/Serie	American Childhoods Series
Verlagsort	Chicago
Sprache	englisch
Maße	157 x 234 mm
Gewicht	508 g
Themenwelt	Sonstiges ► Geschenkbücher
	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	1-56663-540-3 / 1566635403
ISBN-13	978-1-56663-540-0 / 9781566635400
Zustand	Neuware