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Pioneers Genre
Books in the Pioneers genre:
Listening (1936)
Gail and Grroo come to visit Uncle George and his family and learn the history of their colonial house.
Author(s):
Kate Seredy
Illustrator(s):
Kate Seredy
Seven Beads of Wampum (1936)
Marita is a Dutch girl who comes to New Amsterdam with her parents.
Author(s):
Elizabeth Gale
Illustrator(s):
Robert Lawson
On the Banks of Plum Creek (1937)
In the fourth volume of her history Laura and the Ingalls family move to Minnesota and live in a dugout on the banks of Plum Creek.
Author(s):
Laura Ingalls Wilder
Illustrator(s):
Mildred Boyle
Helen Sewell
Over the Blue Wall (1937)
A history of the lands west of the Appalachians to the Mississippi, from Ponce de Leon to Jefferson.
Author(s):
Etta Lane Matthews
Illustrator(s):
James Daugherty
Smiling Hill Farm (1937)
The Wayne family are early pioneers in Indiana, settling at Smiling Hill Farm in 1817.
Author(s):
Miriam E. Mason
Illustrator(s):
Kate Seredy
The Boy Emigrants (1939)
Two young men head west by Conestoga to find a better life. This edition bound in black cloth with a paste on cover is more typical of the Scribner’s Illustrated Classics.
Author(s):
Noah Brooks
Illustrator(s):
Harvey Thomas Dunn
By the Shores of Silver Lake (1939)
Pa takes a job on the railroad and move Ma, Laura, Mary, Carrie and Grace to the Dakota Territory where they spend the winter in a surveyor’s shanty.
Author(s):
Laura Ingalls Wilder
Illustrator(s):
Mildred Boyle
Helen Sewell
Five Bushel Farm (1939)
Author(s):
Elizabeth Coatsworth
Illustrator(s):
Helen Sewell
Homes in the Wilderness (1939)
Author(s):
William Bradford
Margaret Wise Brown
Et al
Illustrator(s):
Mary Wilson Stewart
The Long Winter (1940)
The Indians warn that there will be a hard winter so Pa moves Ma, Laura, Mary, Carrie and Grace to his store building in town for the winter.
Author(s):
Laura Ingalls Wilder
Illustrator(s):
Mildred Boyle
Helen Sewell
Michel’s Island (1940)
Michel Jarnac, son of a French voyageur and grandson of an Indian chief, lives on Mackinac Island in the early 1800’s.
Author(s):
Mabel L. Hunt
Illustrator(s):
Kate Seredy
The Story of Alaska (1940)
Author(s):
Clara Breakey Lambert
Illustrator(s):
Cornelius Hugh De Witt
Little Town on the Prairie (1941)
In the seventh book of her biographical series, Laura is living with Ma, Pa, Mary, Carrie and Grace in De Smet and earns her teaching certificate.
Author(s):
Laura Ingalls Wilder
Illustrator(s):
Mildred Boyle
Helen Sewell
Susannah the Pioneer Cow (1941)
Susannah and her calves Posy and Rosy travel from Virginia to a new home in the Midwest.
Author(s):
Miriam E. Mason
Illustrator(s):
Maud Petersham
Miska Petersham
The Oregon Trail (1943)
Author(s):
Francis Parkman
Illustrator(s):
Maynard Dixon
These Happy Golden Years (1943)
In the eighth book of her biography Laura Ingalls becomes Mrs. Almanzo Wilder.
Author(s):
Laura Ingalls Wilder
Illustrator(s):
Mildred Boyle
Helen Sewell
Two Logs Crossing: John Haskell’s Story (1943)
At sixteen John Haskell is suddenly the man of his family and makes good.
Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Walter D. Edmonds
Illustrator(s):
Tibor Gergely
Daniel Boone (1945)
A brief biography of the American backwoodsman and explorer who opened up the west. In this edition, the text has been considerably enlarged.
Author(s):
Esther Averill
Illustrator(s):
Feodor Rojankovsky
The Wonderful Day (1946)
Sally and Andrew must rally around to save Five Bushel Farm.
Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Elizabeth Coatsworth
Illustrator(s):
Helen Sewell
Cortez the Conqueror (1947)
In 1519 Hernan Cortez landed at Vera Cruz on the coast of Mexico and proceeded to put an end to the murderous cannibal kingdom of the Aztecs.
Author(s):
Covelle Newcomb
Illustrator(s):
Feodor Rojankovsky