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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Pulitzer Prize-winning historian David McCullough rediscovers an important and dramatic chapter in the American story-the settling of the Northwest Territory by dauntless pioneers who overcame incredible hardships to build a community based on ideals that would come to...
The first of James Fenimore Cooper’s “Leatherstocking Tales,” “The Pioneers” tells the story of the elderly Natty Bumppo and his ongoing friendship with the Mohican, Chingachgook. Classics Illustrated tells this wonderful tale in colourful comic strip form, offering an excellent introduction for...
We have all stared up at the stars and desperately tried to put into words what it is that we are feeling.This mission is an articulation of that wonder.It’s 2029: the first human mission to Mars has disappeared without a trace; a reclusive Indian billionaire has funded Ghara I, a new attempt to...
Pioneer Women provides a rare look at frontier life through the eyes of the pioneer women who settled the American West. Linda Peavy and Ursula Smith vividly describe the hardships such women endured journeying west and making homes and communities on the frontier. Their hopes and fears and, most...
Pioneer Girl is the true story of Grace McCance Snyder. In 1885, when Grace was three, she and her family became homesteaders on the windswept prairie of central Nebraska. They settled into a small sod house and hauled their water in barrels. Together they endured violent storms, drought,...
This collection of poems from Vermont farmer Ross Thurber is divided into four sections: “Green Popplewood,” “Sunburnt Juniper,” “Stag Horn Sumac,” and “Snow Melt, Black Brook.” Each section represents a seasonal form of succession that is both literal and abstract. Ultimately the poems in this...
From a rediscovered collection of autobiographical accounts written by hundreds of Kansas pioneer women in the early twentieth century, Joanna Stratton has created a collection hailed by Newsweek as “uncommonly interesting” and “a remarkable distillation of primary sources.“Never before has there...
The first of Cooper’s Leatherstocking Tales, The Pioneers introduces the character of Natty Bumppo, one of literature’s most unforgettable heroes, an outsider on the advancing edge of a civilization he can neither abide nor escape. Bumppo makes his first appearance here as an aged hunter living on...
In the 1800s, the moist soil of the Midwest would stick to plow blades, stopping the farmers as they plowed. Young blacksmith John Deere knew about the problem, so he designed and built a self-scouring plow. With this small start, he founded the famous farm implement company Deere & Company and...
Together, Laura, Mary, and Carrie play games, find mischief, and explore the wild as they travel and settle throughout the Midwest. Join in the fun with everyone’s favorite pioneer sisters!
Abalone Pioneers is the Australian story of the divers, deckhands, researchers and processors who established and developed the zone’s abalone industry, from the amateur fishermen of the 1950s and the hazy crazy tribe of `scruffy longhairs’, who were attracted by the hedonistic lifestyle and...
The #1 New York Times bestseller by Pulitzer Prize–winning historian David McCullough rediscovers an important chapter in the American story that’s “as resonant today as ever” (The Wall Street Journal)—the settling of the Northwest Territory by courageous pioneers who overcame incredible hardships...
Discover the fascinating life of world-renowned scientist Jonas Salk, whose pioneering discoveries changed the world forever.A SYDNEY TAYLOR NOTABLE BOOK . Learn about the importance of vaccines and the scientific process through the fascinating life of world-renowned scientist Jonas Salk, whose...
Laura Ingalls doesn’t have many neighbors on the frontier, so her sisters are her best friends in the world. Together, Laura, Mary, and Carrie share all kinds of adventures. Just in time for the 150th anniversary of Laura Ingalls Wilder’s birth, we’re reintroducing these charming chapter books to a...
A 2020 LITA Excellence in Children’s and Young Adult Science Fiction Notable Book!Packed with action and unexpected twists, this addictive page-turner is perfect for fans of Illuminae and Defy the Stars!When Jo steps onto planet Tau Ceti e for the first time, she’s ready to put the past behind her...
On an autumn day in 1895, eighteen-year-old Loyd Montgomery shot his parents and a neighbor in a gruesome act that reverberated beyond the small confines of Montgomery’s Oregon farming community. The dispassionate slaying and Montgomery’s consequent hanging exposed the fault lines of a rapidly...
The #1 New York Times bestseller by Pulitzer Prize-winning historian David McCullough rediscovers an important chapter in the American story that’s “as resonant today as ever” (The Wall Street Journal)—the settling of the Northwest Territory by courageous pioneers who overcame incredible hardships...
Alexander James Inglis’s (1879-1924) transformation from an academic traditionalist devoted to Latin pedagogy to an influential progressive-experimentalist and advocate of the comprehensive high school has received insufficient attention from educational and curriculum historians. Inglis’s career...
When Mollie Babcock stepped off the train in Salt Lake City, Utah, in 1890, she knew she had to start a new life. She’d left her husband and their medical practice in Iowa, and with only a few hundred dollars in her pocket and a great deal of pride, she set out to find a new position as a...
In Metis Pioneers, Doris Jeanne MacKinnon compares the survival strategies of two Metis women born during the fur trade—one from the French-speaking free trade tradition and one from the English-speaking Hudson’s Bay Company tradition—who settled in southern Alberta as the Canadian West...