Growing Up with the Country: Childhood on the Far Western Frontier / Edition 1

by Elliott West

Overview

Historians have paid little attention to the lives and contributions of children who took part in westward expansion. In this major study of American childhood, now available again in paperback, Elliott West explores how children helped shape—and in turn were shaped by—the frontier experience. Frontier children's first vivid perceptions of the new country, when deepened by their work, play, and exploration, forged a stronger bond with their surroundings than that of their elders. Through diaries, journals, letters, novels, and oral and written reminiscences, West has reconstructed the lives of the children who grew to become the first truly Western generation.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780826311559
Publisher:	University of New Mexico Press
Publication date:	09/01/1989
Series:	Histories of the American Frontier Series
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	367
Sales rank:	1,028,792
Product dimensions:	6.36(w) x 9.26(h) x 0.97(d)

About the Author

Howard R. Lamar is Sterling Professor Emeritus of History at Yale and a former president of that university.

Martin Ridge is a senior research associate in the Henry E. Huntington Library. He has taught at San Diego State University, Indiana University, and the California Institute of Technology. He is the former editor of the Journal of American History and the past president of the Pacific Coast Branch of the American Historical Association and Western History Association. He is the author of numerous scholarly and review articles dealing with the American West. He is the coeditor of Histories of the American Frontier.

David J. Weber is The Robert and Nancy Dedman Professor of History and the Director of the Clements Center for Southwest Studies at Southern Methodist University.

Editorial Reviews

Takes its rightful place among the best studies of frontier family life to date.

"Takes its rightful place among the best studies of frontier family life to date."

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