Frontier living (Record no. 3055)
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
|---|---|
| International Standard Book Number | 158574137X |
| 022 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD SERIAL NUMBER | |
| International Standard Serial Number | 9781585741373 |
| 082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
| Classification number | y973 Tun |
| Item number | 58 |
| 092 ## - LOCALLY ASSIGNED DEWEY CALL NUMBER (OCLC) | |
| Classification number | y973 Tun |
| 100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Tunis, Edwin |
| 245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | Frontier living |
| Statement of responsibility, etc | by Edwin Tunis |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) | |
| Name of publisher, distributor, etc | World Publishing Company |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc | 1961 |
| Place of publication, distribution, etc | New York |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Extent | 165 p. |
| 500 ## - GENERAL NOTE | |
| General note | Includes index |
| 500 ## - GENERAL NOTE | |
| General note | Awards:Newbery Honor Book, 1962. |
| 505 ## - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE | |
| Title | 1. THE DEEPWATER FRONTIER: North America in 1725 -- 2. THE PIEDMONT -- The flintlock rifle -- People in the woods -- Invasion -- The log cabin -- Household articles -- Food -- Clothes -- Hunting -- Indians -- Forts -- Medicine and witchcraft -- Justice -- Childhood and sports -- Pack trains -- 3. THE SOUTHERN VALLEYS -- The Seven Years' War -- 4. THE GREAT SALIENT -- The Revolutionary War -- The Garden of Eden -- The people -- Daily life in the clearings -- Linen -- Wool -- Weaving, dyeing and fulling -- Housekeeping -- Sweet'nin' -- Outdoor work -- Beef cattle -- Farming -- Villages and trades -- Saturday -- Sunday -- School -- Parties -- The land ordinances, 1785 -- 1790 -- 5. ROAD AND RIVER -- The travelers -- The floating forts -- Navigation -- Trade on the rivers -- Pirates -- Keelboats -- Upstream navigation -- The rivermen -- Other boats -- Indian treaties and Louisiana, 1795-1803 -- The Louisana Purchase -- 6. THE OLD NORTHWEST -- Public land -- The national road -- The freight wagons -- The coach lines -- Inns -- Farms -- The barn -- Corn -- Scythe and cradle -- Water -- Housekeeping -- Clothes -- People -- Religion -- Towns -- Money -- Utopias -- The "Permanent" Indian frontier -- 7. THE COTTON FRONTIER -- 8. SHRINKING DISTANCES -- Steam navigation -- The Erie Canal -- The Pennsylvania system -- Early railroads) -- Southwestern boundaries -- 9. BEYOND THE MISSISSIPPI -- Missouri -- Texas -- The Black Hawk War -- The Iowa squatters -- Buck and bright -- The claims clubs -- 10. CARAVANS TO SANTA FE -- The jump-off -- Guns -- The trail -- Santa Fe and the ranchos -- Trading -- 11. THE FUR TRADE AND THE MOUNTAIN MEN -- The Beaver and the "Company" -- The Company posts -- The Rendezvous -- 12. THE BITTER ROAD TO OREGON -- The missionaries -- Organization of the wagon trail -- The Oregon trail -- The order of the day -- The buffalo -- On the trail -- The Pathfind of the West -- 13. THE HARRIED SAINTS -- The prophet -- Exodus -- The promised land -- 14. ALTA CALIFORNIA -- Missions, Presidios, and pueblos -- Gay prosperity -- The ranchos and trade -- Gringo settlers -- Boundaries and "Manifest Destiny" -- 15. EL DORADO -- The rush of the Argonauts -- The diggings -- The roaring camps -- Washoe and Pike's peak -- 16. TWO THOUSAND MILES -- Stages in California -- Freight and mail -- The overland mail -- The concord coach -- The pony express -- The Civil War and the west -- Thirty miles an hour -- Laying the rails -- The golden spike -- The clearing of the plains -- 17. THE COW HUNT AND THE COWHAND -- The longhorns -- The cow hunt -- Horses -- Cowhands -- Saddles and equipment -- "Bleeding Kansas" and homesteading -- 18. THE SODBUSTERS AND THE CATTLE DRIVES -- Soddies -- Water -- The cattle trails -- The long drive -- Sheep -- Barbed wire. |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc | "A companion book to the author's 'Colonial Living, ' describing the life of all the early settlers of the American [frontier] ... where they lived and how; what they wore, ate, used for furniture and tools; how they worked, played, traveled, went to school, worshiped and governed themselves." |
| 546 ## - LANGUAGE NOTE | |
| Information code or alphabet | 29880 |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Source of heading or term | Frontier and pioneer life |
| Geographic subdivision | United States |
| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | Juvenile literature. |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Source of heading or term | Manners and customs |
| Geographic subdivision | United States |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Source of heading or term | Social life and customs |
| Geographic subdivision | United States |
| 942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA) | |
| Source of classification or shelving scheme | |
| Koha item type | yan 900 - 999 |
| Lost status | Source of classification or shelving scheme | Permanent Location | Current Location | Cost, normal purchase price | Full call number | Barcode | Date last seen | Public note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Arthur Johnson Memorial Library | Arthur Johnson Memorial Library | 3.99 | y973 Tun | 29880 | 2007-07-31 | Memorial |