Daily Life on the Nineteenth Century American Frontier
- ISBN-10
- 0313296340
- ISBN-13
- 9780313296345
- Category
- History
- Pages
- 269
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1998
- Publisher
- Greenwood Publishing Group
- Author
- Mary Ellen Jones
Description
This comprehensive social history of the westward movement explores the details of everyday living on the American frontier.
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- 1998-11-24
- 286 pages
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- Bloomsbury Publishing USA
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