Daily Life on the Old Colonial Frontier
- ISBN-10
- 031331103X
- ISBN-13
- 9780313311031
- Category
- History
- Pages
- 337
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2002
- Publisher
- Greenwood Publishing Group
- Authors
- James M. Volo, Dorothy Denneen Volo
Description
Provides a detailed picture of frontier life, discussing the explorers, traders, missionaries, colonists, and native peoples and the environments in which they lived.
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