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Pioneers Genre
Books in the Pioneers genre:
Evangeline (1897)
Longfellow’s poem deals with a French Canadian love story.
Author(s):
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Illustrator(s):
Violet Oakley
Jessie Willcox Smith
The Log of a Cowboy (1903)
A history of the cattle drives north from Texas after the Civil War. Read for free online at Internet Archive.
Author(s):
Andy Adams
Illustrator(s):
E. Boyd Smith
Rolf in the Woods (1911)
Author(s):
Ernest Thompson Seton
Illustrator(s):
Ernest Thompson Seton
Letters of a Woman Homesteader (1914)
Collection of letters describing of ranch life in southwestern Wyoming. The letters are dated from April 1909 to November 1913 and were printed originally in the Atlantic monthly.
Author(s):
Elinore Pruitt Stewart
Illustrator(s):
N. C. Wyeth
Daniel Boone: Wilderness Scout (1922)
A biography of Daniel Boone who opened the Kentucky wilderness
Author(s):
Stewart Edward White
Illustrator(s):
James Daugherty
Down the Big River (1924)
Tom Lockwood and his parents are going down the Ohio River to take up land in Missouri when they are captured by pirates.
Author(s):
Stephen W. Meader
Illustrator(s):
Stephen W. Meader
The Oregon Trail Sketches of Prairie and Rocky-Mountain Life (1925)
Author(s):
Francis Parkman
Illustrator(s):
N. C. Wyeth
The Black Angels (1926)
They all seven loved to sing, except Joseph, and eagerly accepted Benjy's plan to form an Operatic and Concert Troupe.
Author(s):
Maud Hart Lovelace
Illustrator(s):
George Breans
The Deerslayer or The First Warpath (1926)
Author(s):
James Fenimore Cooper
Illustrator(s):
Louis Rhead
Frank Schoonover
Daniel Boone (1931)
A brief biography of the pioneering backwoodsman.
Author(s):
Unknown
Illustrator(s):
Feodor Rojankovsky
The Oregon Trail (1931)
Francis Parkman took a tour of the West before settling down to write his histories. Read for free online at HathiTrust.
Author(s):
Francis Parkman
Illustrator(s):
James Daugherty
The Willow Whistle (1931)
Mary Anne’s father opens a general store on the prairie. Her friend Eric teaches her to make willow whistles.
Author(s):
Cornelia Meigs
Illustrator(s):
E. Boyd Smith
Little House in the Big Woods (1932)
In this, the first volume of her family saga, Laura Ingalls is living with her Ma and Pa, sisters Mary and Carrie in the Big Woods of Wisconsin, near Lake Pepin.
Author(s):
Laura Ingalls Wilder
Illustrator(s):
Helen Sewell
The Sign of the Buffalo Skull (1932)
A biography of Jim Bridger, mountain man.
Author(s):
Peter O. Lamb
Illustrator(s):
James Daugherty
The Treasure in the Little Trunk (1932)
A story of pioneers settling western New York in the early 1800’s.
Author(s):
Helen Fuller Orton
Illustrator(s):
Robert Ball
Desert Water (1933)
The story about the fight for water along the Idaho Nevada border.
Author(s):
Sinclair Drago
Illustrator(s):
Frank Schoonover
Farmer Boy (1933)
The story of Almanzo Wilder growing up with his brother Royal and his two sisters on a big farm in New York state.
Author(s):
Laura Ingalls Wilder
Illustrator(s):
Helen Sewell
Away Goes Sally (1934)
Author(s):
Elizabeth Coatsworth
Illustrator(s):
Helen Sewell
Caddie Woodlawn (1935)
Pioneer adventures of a girl growing up in northern Wisconsin.
Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Carol Ryrie Brink
Illustrator(s):
Kate Seredy
Little House on the Prairie (1935)
In the second book of the Little House series, Pa takes the family and sets out for Indian Territory to stake a claim.
Author(s):
Laura Ingalls Wilder
Illustrator(s):
Helen Sewell