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Historians have paid little attention to the lives and contributions of children who took part in westward expansion. In this major study of American childhood, now available again in paperback, Elliott West explores how children helped shapeand in turn were shaped bythe frontier experience. Frontier childrens first vivid perceptions of the new country, when deepened by their work, play, and exploration, forged a stronger bond with their surroundings than that of their elders. Through diaries, journals, letters, novels, and oral and written reminiscences, West has reconstructed the lives of the children who grew to become the first truly Western generation.

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Growing Up with the Country
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Children on a Colorado homestead Courtesy Colorado Historical Society - photo 2
Children on a Colorado homestead. (Courtesy Colorado Historical Society).
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Growing Up with the Country
Childhood on the Far Western Frontier
Elliott West
Histories of the American Frontier
 Ray Allen Billington, General Editor
Howard R. Lamar, Coeditor
Martin Ridge, Coeditor
David J. Weber, Coeditor
University of New Mexico Press
Albuquerque
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
West, Elliott, 1945
Growing up with the country: childhood on the far-western
frontier / Elliott West. 1st ed.
p. cm. (Histories of the American frontier)
Bibliography: p.
Includes index.
ISBN 0-8263-1154-7. ISBN 0-8263-1155-5 (pbk.)
1. ChildrenWest (U.S.History19th century. 2. Children
West (U.S.)Social conditions, 3. Frontier and pioneer lifeWest
(U.S.) 4. West (U.S.)History1848-1950. I. Title. II. Series.
HQ792.U5W425 1989
305.23'0978dc20
89-4938
CIP
1989 by the University of New Mexico Press
All rights reserved.
Fourth paperbound printing, 1998
Page v
For my parents,
Dick and Betsy West
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Contents
Illustrations
ix
Foreword
xi
Preface
xvii
1. The Frontier
1
Picture 3
Caesar Brock
23
2. First Perceptions
25
Picture 4
Anne Ellis
47
3. At Home
51
Picture 5
Grace Fisk
71
4. Child's Work
73
Picture 6
T. W. Dobbs
99
5. Child's Play
101
Picture 7
Fiorello La Guardia
119

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6. Growing Up
121
Picture 8
Charles Gallagher
145
7. Family And Community
147
Picture 9
Mari Sandoz
177
8. A Great School House
179
Picture 10
Lillian Miller
211
9. Suffer the Children
213
Picture 11
Owen McWhorter
243
10. Children and the Frontier
245
Notes
265
Bibliography
303
Index
335

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Illustrations
Children on a Colorado homestead
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A pioneer family in Cripple Creek, Colorado.
9
Children were rare sights in a mining region like Jefferson County.
16
The Hopkins family settled near Berwyn, Nebraska, in the late 1880s.
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