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1) The railroad
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Describes the development of the railroad in North America and its influence on the settling of the West during the nineteenth century.
10) Colonial life
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Color photographs and text describe everyday life in the American colonies.
12) The kitchen
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Discusses kitchen utensils and activities including cooking over a fire, baking bread, making butter, and preserving food.
16) Colonial crafts
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Colorful photographs and text describe how colonial Americans made the things they needed such as chairs, baskets, tools, and clothing. Introduces the workshops of colonial wheelwrights, coopers, shoemakers, milliners, leatherworkers, and more.
17) A child's day
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Text and accompanying photographs explore the daily life of children in nineteenth-century North American communities through stories and activities.
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With few roads and bridges, travel was slow, difficult, and often dangerous. The early settlers had to find creative ways of getting around. This attractive book describes the hazards people faced while traveling long ago: -- in the city and in the wilderness-- on water and during the winter-- in wagons and coaches and later in steamboats, trains, and early automobiles.