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Frontier Children
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Charles Wesley Wells describes his life as
an eleven year old living on the Iowa frontier in 1852.
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- Later
in life, Anna Howard Shaw would become an important
leader in the women’s suffrage movement. In this excerpt
from her autobiography, she describes her mothers’ reaction
to moving to the Michigan frontier from Massachusetts in 1859.
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- Cotton
and corn picking on the frontier was exhausting work, as Edna
Matthews Clifton described.
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- This
entry appears in the diary of a 12-year-old girl
in Helena, Montana, in 1865.
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- A
15-year-old girl reacts to life on her west
Texas ranch.
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- A
British traveler, Isabella Bird, believed that
children grew up far more quickly on the frontier than elsewhere.
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- Steel
plows allowed relatively young children, like Percy
Ebbutt, to plow the tough plains grass.
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- Edward
Everett Dale grew up in Texas in the 1880s.
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- Frances
I. Sims Fulton recounted her impressions of life in
frontier Nebraska in 1883.
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- Agnes
Morley Cleaveland grew up in Magdalena, New Mexico,
in the 1880s.
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- Owen
P. White describes an incident that occurred in frontier
Arizona in the mid-1880s.
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- Fannie
L. Eisele, who was 10 years old in 1897, describes
her responsibilities on her families Oklahoma farm.
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- Nellie
Carnahan Robinson taught school in Lavender, Colorado
from 1897 to 1899.
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- Nebraska’s
superintendent of schools describes sod schoolhouses.
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- Nearly
200,000 poor children were sent west on orphan trains and went
to live with farm families. Margaret Braden
described how the children were distributed to families.
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