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Pioneers Genre
Books in the Pioneers genre:
American Backgrounds (1958)
An anthology of early American stories for older children.
The Cabin Faced West (1958)
Author(s):
Jean Fritz
Illustrator(s):
Feodor Rojankovsky
Stories of Early America (1958)
Stories and poems about early American history for younger children.
Read online at archive.org.
The Ballad of the Pilgrim Cat (1962)
Author(s):
Leonard Wibberley
Illustrator(s):
Erik Blegvad
Flames Over New England (1967)
The story of the first great war between the Native Americans and the English colonists.
Author(s):
Olga Wilbourne Hall-Quest
Illustrator(s):
Christine Price
Frederica: Colonial Fort and Town (1969)
This is the history of the first colonial settlement in Georgia, on a coastal island.
Author(s):
T. R. Reese
Illustrator(s):
Peter Spier
Bread and Butter Journey (1970)
Author(s):
Anne Colver
Illustrator(s):
Garth Williams
The First Four Years (1971)
Author(s):
Laura Ingalls Wilder
Illustrator(s):
Garth Williams
Caddy Woodlawn (1973)
Pioneer adventures of a girl growing up in northern Wisconsin.
Author(s):
Carol Ryrie Brink
Illustrator(s):
Trina Schart Hyman
The Legend of New Amsterdam (1979)
A pictorial history of the early days of New Amsterdam, or as we now know it, New York.
Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Peter Spier
Illustrator(s):
Peter Spier
The Little House Cookbook (1979)
Now you can eat the same dishes Ma served to Pa, Laura and her sisters.
Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Barbara M. Walker
Illustrator(s):
Garth Williams
Rosie and the Rustlers (1989)
Author(s):
Roy Gerrard
Illustrator(s):
Roy Gerrard
Laura Ingalls Wilder Country Cookbook (1995)
This is a collection of recipes from Laura Ingalls Wilder’s own cookbook.
Author(s):
William T. Anderson
Laura Ingalls Wilder
Illustrator(s):
Photographs
Wagons West! (1996)
Pioneers head west to the Oregon territory by wagon train.
Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Roy Gerrard
Illustrator(s):
Roy Gerrard
White Fang (2000)
A classic story of a half-dog half-wolf who is brutalized by a bad master during the Klondike gold rush, but finally finds a man he can love.
Author(s):
Jack London
Illustrator(s):
Ed Young
Down the Big River (2004)
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):
Edward Shenton
River of the Wolves (2006)
Dave Foster is captured during the French and Indian Wars and taken captive to Canada. After spending a winter learning the Indian ways, he escapes and makes his way home to Maine.
Author(s):
Stephen W. Meader
Illustrator(s):
Edward Shenton
The Black Angels (2009)
They all loved to sing, except Joseph, so they eagerly fell in with Benjie's plan to form an Operatic and Concert Troupe and go on the road.
Author(s):
Maud Hart Lovelace
Illustrator(s):
Unknown
Pioneer Girl: The Annotated Autobiography (2014)
Laura Ingalls Wilder wrote her autobiography in 1930. It did not find a publisher but served as the basis for her subsequent series of Little House books. It is here published for the first time with copious annotations.
Author(s):
Laura Ingalls Wilder
Illustrator(s):
None