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Books in the Farm Life genre:

The Farmyard Alphabet (1865)

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An alphabet based on familiar farmyard scenes. Read for free online at Internet Archive.

Author(s): Anonymous
Illustrator(s): Walter Crane

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Being a Boy (1878)

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The story of the author’s boyhood in Charlemont, Massachusetts in the 1830’s. Read online at archive.org.... View More

Author(s): Charles Dudley Warner
Illustrator(s): Champ

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In the High Valley (1891)

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Clover and her sister Elsie are married to two English brothers and living in Colorado now. Read for free online at Internet Archive.

Author(s): Susan Coolidge
Illustrator(s): Jessie McDermot

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Boy Life on the Prairie (1899)

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An account of growing up on an Iowa farm shortly after the Civil War. Considered by many the author’s best work and one of the outstanding accounts of growing up in the Midwest in the nineteenth century. Read online at archive.org.... View More

Author(s): Hamlin Garland
Illustrator(s): Edwin Willard Deming

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The Square Book of Animals (1900)

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A collection of poems and prints. Read for free online at Internet Archive.

Author(s): Arthur Waugh
Illustrator(s): William Nicholson

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Farming (1903)

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Part of the Haddon Hall Library for gentlemen farmers, the end papers head and tail pieces are by Rackham. Read for free online at HathiTrust.... View More

Author(s): W. M. Tod
Illustrator(s): L. Kemp-Welch
Arthur Rackham

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The Log of a Cowboy (1903)

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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

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Freckles (1904)

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A one handed orphan takes on the job of protecting the valuable trees in the Limberlost from timber pirates.

Author(s): Gene Stratton-Porter
Illustrator(s): E. Stetson Crawford

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The Outlet (1905)

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An account of the author’s experiences as a cowboy after the Civil War as Texas cattle were driven to the north to be finished for market on the plains that had been cleared of buffalo. Read for free online at HathiTrust.... View More

Author(s): Andy Adams
Illustrator(s): E. Boyd Smith

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The Flock (1906)

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A study of the sheep rancher in California at the turn of the twentieth century. The cover is from the reprint edition. Read for free online at Internet Archive.... View More

Author(s): Mary Austin
Illustrator(s): E. Boyd Smith

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Love Among the Chickens (1906)

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Stanley Featherstonehaugh Ukridge makes his first appearance in this novel. He persuades his friend Jeremy Garnet, an Old Wrykynian, to join him and his wife in a chicken ranch. Jeremy meets Phyllis Derrick on the train to Lyme Regis and sets out to ... View More

Author(s): P. G. Wodehouse
Illustrator(s): H. M. Brock

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The Tale of Jemima Puddle-Duck (1908)

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Jemima is looking for a place to hide her nest and a cunning fox offers her his shed and bids fair to eat her until Kep the farm dog intervenes. Read online at Hathitrust. Or at wikisource.... View More

Author(s): Beatrix Potter
Illustrator(s): Beatrix Potter

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Love Among the Chickens; A Story of the Haps and Mishaps on an English Chicken Farm (1909)

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Stanley Featherstonehaugh Ukridge makes his first appearance in this novel. He persuades his friend Jeremy Garnet, an Old Wrykynian, to join him and his wife in a chicken ranch. Jeremy meets Phyllis Derrick on the train to Lyme Regis and sets out to ... View More

Author(s): P. G. Wodehouse
Illustrator(s): Armand Both

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The Rosebud and Other Tales (1909)

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Six original tales.

Author(s): Arthur Kelly
Illustrator(s): Walter Crane

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The Thin Santa Claus: The Chicken Yard That Was a Christmas Stocking (1909)

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On Christmas morning Mrs. Gratz wakes to find her hen house robbed of nine hens and a rooster - but the robber has left behind his purse containing nine hundred dollars. Read online at Hathitrust.... View More

Author(s): Ellis Parker Butler
Illustrator(s): May Wilson Preston

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Chicken World (1910)

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The story of an old black hen who hatches her brood - including two ducks - and teaches them what they need to know. Read for free online at the Brooklyn Public Library.... View More

Author(s): E. Boyd Smith
Illustrator(s): E. Boyd Smith

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The Farm Book: Bob and Betty Visit Uncle John (1910)

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Two children spend from plow time to first snow on a farm when everything was still done by hand and horse. Read online at BPL.

Author(s): E. Boyd Smith
Illustrator(s): E. Boyd Smith

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The Tale of Pigling Bland (1913)

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Sent out into the world on his own, Pigling Bland rescues a beautiful sow named Pigwig and together they flee over the hills and far away. This was the second book in the new larger format. It was later republished in the original small format. Read ... View More

Author(s): Beatrix Potter
Illustrator(s): Beatrix Potter

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Love Among the Chickens: Revised (1921)

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Stanley Featherstonehaugh Ukridge makes his first appearance in this novel. He persuades his friend Jeremy Garnet, an Old Wrykynian, to join him and his wife in a chicken ranch. Jeremy meets Phyllis Derrick on the train to Lyme Regis and sets out to ... View More

Author(s): P. G. Wodehouse
Illustrator(s): Unknown

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Daniel Boone: Wilderness Scout (1922)

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A biography of Daniel Boone who opened the Kentucky wilderness

Author(s): Stewart Edward White
Illustrator(s): James Daugherty

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