Found 846 results for "Frontier and pioneer life in fiction"
O Pioneers!
by Willa Cather
One January day, thirty years ago, the little town of Hanover, anchored on a windy Nebraska tableland, was trying not to...
My Ántonia
by Willa Cather
FIRST HEARD of Antonia on what seemed to me an interminable journey across the great midland plain of North America.
Little House in the Big Woods
by Laura Ingalls Wilder
Once upon a time, sixty years ago, a little girl lived in the Big Woods of Wisconsin, in a little gray house made of log...
The Federalist, or, The New Constitution
by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison
AFTER an unequivocal experience of the inefficacy of the subsisting federal government, you are called upon to deliberat...
Little House on the Prairie
by Laura Ingalls Wilder
Along time ago, when all the grandfathers and grandmothers of today were little boys and little girls or very small babi...
The Last of the Mohicans
by James Fenimore Cooper
IT WAS a feature peculiar to the colonial wars of North America, that the toils and dangers of the wilderness were to be...
The pioneers
by James Fenimore Cooper
NEAR the center of the State of New York lies an extensive district of country whose surface is a succession of hills an...
On the Banks of Plum Creek
by Laura Ingalls Wilder
The dim wagon track went no farther on the prairie, and Pa stopped the horses.
Caddie Woodlawn
by Carol Ryrie Brink
In 1864 Caddie Woodlawn was eleven, and as wild a little tomboy as ever ran the woods of western Wisconsin.
Platero y yo
by Juan Ramón Jiménez
Platero is so little, so hairy, smooth, and so soft to the touch that you might say he is made of puffy cotton, all ligh...
Farmer Boy
by Laura Ingalls Wilder
He wore one pair of socks pulled snug over the legs of his underdrawers, and another pair outside the legs of his long b...
Hija de la fortuna
by Isabel Allende
Everyone is born with some special talent, and Eliza Sommers discovered early on that she had two: a good sense of smell...
By the Shores of Silver Lake
by Laura Ingalls Wilder
LAURA WAS WASHING the dishes one morning when old Jack, lying in the sunshine on the doorstep, growled to tell her that ...
Sarah, plain and tall
by Patricia MacLachlan, Patricia MacLachlan
"Did Mama sing every day?"
Little Town on the Prairie
by Laura Ingalls Wilder
One evening at supper, Pa asked, " How would you like to work in town, Laura?"
The Pathfinder
by James Fenimore Cooper
THE SUBLIMITY CONNECTED with vastness is familiar to every eye.
The deerslayer
by James Fenimore Cooper
ON THE HUMAN IMAGINATION events produce the effects of time.
Markens grøde
by Knut Hamsun, William John Alexander Worster
The long, long road over the moors and up into the forest-who trod it into being first of all?
The First Four Years
by Laura Ingalls Wilder
It was a hot afternoon with a strong wind from the south, but out on the Dakota prairie in 1885 no one minded the hot su...