Growing Up in Pioneer America
by Judith P. Josephson
Lerner Publications, 2003
"From the Missouri River to where the road turned to California, we were never out of sight of long trains of covered wagons."
- Virginia Watson, Year 1849, age eight,
traveling to Oregon with her family
Westward Ho!" was a cry heard by many children like eight-year-olds Virginia Watson and Jesse Applegate in the 1800s. As thousands of pioneers moved west to settle far from the safety of cities, their children moved with them. Driving cattle, collecting buffalo chips, cooking, mending, gathering water and food, and even burying their own parents-children such as Elizabeth Pulsipher and Mary Goble bravely faced life on the wagon trains, and at the end of the trail. Through diaries, letters, songs, photos, and other sources, discover what life was like in pioneer America through the true stories of children who actually lived during this momentous time.
Play Pioneer Days Games
: Match names, expressions, songs, events, and other facts
from the pioneer days during the westward migration with terms that describe
them.
Growing Up
in Pioneer America chosen for 2002 VOYA (Voice of Youth Advocates) Nonfiction
Honor List
Our America Series:
Growing Up in
Pioneer America:1800 to 1890
Growing Up in a New Century:1890 to 1914
Growing Up in World War II: 1941 to 1945
Take a Sneak Peek inside this book.
Just for Kids activities for Growing Up in Pioneer America
Other websites to learn more about the pioneers:
www.pbs.org/weta/thewest
www.isu.edu/~trinmich/Allabout.html
library.thinkquest.org/J001587/
www.historyglobe.com/ot/otmap
memory.loc.gov/ammem/index.html
Runner-Up, San Diego Book Awards, "Juvenile History"
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