Frontier Children - Hardcover

A visual tour of the childhood on the American frontier brings a diverse cast of characters to the fore, including boxcar dwellers, Hispanic cornhuskers, youthful hunters, orphans, native Americans, and miners children, always with an eye toward busting stereotypes.

"Enriched by over 200 vintage photographs, Frontier Children is a visual and verbal montage of childhood in the nineteenth-century West. From a wide range of primary and secondary sources, Linda Peavy and Ursula Smith, well known for their books on western women, have brought together stories and images that erase the stereotypes and bring to life the infinite variety of the experience of growing up in the American West."--BOOK JACKET.