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Rural schools--United States--History, School buildings--United States--History.
publication date
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1996
lcc
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LC5146.5.G85 1996eb
ddc
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370.19/346/0973
subject
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Rural schools--United States--History, School buildings--United States--History.
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Lonsdale Public School, restored as community facility mid 1980s. (Photo by William E. Brodersen.)
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America's Country Schools
Andrew Gulliford With a Note from Barbara Bush
University Press Of Colorado
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Published by the University Press of Colorado PO. Box 849 Niwot, Colorado 80544 (303) 530-5337
The University Press of Colorado is a cooperative publishing enterprise supported, in part, by Adams State College, Colorado State University, Fort Lewis College, Mesa State College, Metropolitan State College of Denver, University of Colorado, University of Northern Colorado, University of Southern Colorado, and Western State College of Colorado.
Originally published by The Preservation Press, National Trust for Historic Preservation
Dedicated to all those pioneer schoolteachers who taught in one-room schools and made do with so little, to Esma Lewis, who came into the West when the country was young and taught three generations of Colorado children, and to Jesse Stuart (1906-84) who believed in the spirit of the one-room schoolhouse
Copyright 1984 1991 1996 Andrew Gulliford. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any manner without written permission from the publisher, except for brief quotations used in reviews.
The paper used in this publication meets the minimum requirements of the American National Standard for Information SciencesPermanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials. ANSI Z39.48-1984
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Gulliford, Andrew. America's country schools / Andrew Gulliford; with a note from Barbara Bush.[3rd ed.] p. cm. Includes bibliographical references (p. ) and index. ISBN 0-87081-422-2 (alk. paper) 1. Rural schoolsUnited StatesHistory. 2. School buildingsUnited StatesHistory. I. Title. LC5146.5.G85 1996 370.19'346'0973dc2096-3850 CIP
Printed in the United States of America
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Contents
Note from Barbara Bush
5
Foreword to the Third Edition
6
Introduction to the Third Edition
9
Acknowledgments
15
Portfolio: America's Country Schools
18
Country School Legacy
Country Schools in American Education
34
The Four Rs: Reading, Writing, Arithmetic, Recitation
46
Teachers' Lives on the Western Frontier
62
Country Schools as Community Centers
78
Country Schools and the Assimilation Process
90
Country Schools Today
112
Portfolio: Country School Legacy
126
Country School Architecture
Little Red Schoolhouses - and Others
158
Portfolio: Country School Architecture
196
Country School Preservation
The New Three Rs: Restoration, Rehabilitation, Reuse
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