Pintsized Pioneers: Taming the Frontier, One Chore at a Time

by Preston Lewis, Harriet Kocher Lewis

Overview

Pintsized Pioneers: Taming the Frontier, One Chore at a Time explores how children up to age sixteen helped tame the Old West through their labor.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781964830049
Publisher:	Bariso Press
Publication date:	09/24/2024
Series:	Pintsized Pioneers , #1
Pages:	184
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.39(d)
Age Range:	13 - 18 Years

About the Author

Author and historian Preston Lewis has published more than 50 fiction and nonfiction works. The versatile author's books include traditional westerns, historical novels, comic westerns, young adult books, and historical accounts. In 2021 he was inducted into the Texas Institute of Letters for his literary accomplishments. His writing honors include two Spur Awards from Western Writers of America and three Elmer Kelton Awards from the West Texas Historical Association. He has received ten Will Rogers Medallion Awards for western humor, short stories, traditional westerns and nonfiction articles. In 2024 he earned an inaugural Literary Global Independent Author Award in the Western Nonfiction category for Cat Tales of the Old West as well as two finalist designations in the IAA's Memoir and Humor categories. Lewis is a past president of Western Writers of America and the West Texas Historical Association, which named him a fellow in 2016. He earned a bachelor's degree from Baylor University and a master's degree from Ohio State University, both in journalism. He holds a second master's degree in history from Angelo State University. Lewis resides in San Angelo, Texas, with his wife Harriet Kocher Lewis.

Harriet Kocher Lewis is the award-winning editor and publisher of Bariso Press. Titles she has edited have been honored with Will Rogers Medallion Awards, Spur Finalist designations and Independent Author Awards. She is co-author with her husband of three books in the "Magic Machine Series" published by Bariso Press. A native Pennsylvanian, she graduated from State College High School. She has a bachelor's degree from Baylor University in biology and physical therapy and a master's degree from Texas Tech in kinesiology. She spent 26 years as a physical therapist in hospitals, outpatient clinics, nursing homes and home health. Lewis concluded her physical therapy career as the inaugural clinical coordinator for the physical therapy program at Angelo State University, where she wrote and edited numerous scientific papers as well as a chapter in a clinical education textbook. She is married to award-winning author Preston Lewis and the mother of a son and daughter as well as the grandmother of four granddaughters and a grandson. Each summer she organizes and hosts a summer camp for their five grandchildren.