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Historical Fiction - Pioneers Genre
Books in the Historical Fiction - Pioneers genre:
The Boy Emigrants (1914)
Two young men head west by Conestoga to find a better life. Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Noah Brooks
Illustrator(s):
Harvey Thomas Dunn
The Last of the Mohicans (1919)
Author(s):
James Fenimore Cooper
Illustrator(s):
N. C. Wyeth
Early Candlelight (1929)
A novel of Minnesota and Fort Snelling in the early days of the Northwest Territory.
Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Maud Hart Lovelace
Illustrator(s):
T. S. Hunner
The Adventures of Johnny Appleseed (1930)
Author(s):
Henry Chapin
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 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
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
Roaring River (1934)
A tale about a carefree young man from the Cities of the East and his journey into adulthood in the still Wild West. Informative adventure about the rail road companies West during the turn of the century.
Author(s):
William MacLeod Raine
Illustrator(s):
N. C. Wyeth
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
The Golden Horseshoe (1936)
Tamar is a half English and half Indian girl who accompanies her father and brother while disguised as the Indian Raccoon on an expedition to cross the Blue Ridge Mountains in colonial Virginia.
Author(s):
Elizabeth Coatsworth
Illustrator(s):
Robert Lawson
A-Going to the Westward (1937)
A story of pioneers settling in Ohio in the 1810’s.
Author(s):
Lois Lenski
Illustrator(s):
Lois Lenski
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
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
Young Settler (1938)
Author(s):
Phil Stong
Illustrator(s):
Kurt Wiese
All the Days Were Antonia’s (1939)
Author(s):
Florence Stebbins Gleeson
Gretchen McKown
Illustrator(s):
Zhenya Gay
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
Homes in the Wilderness (1939)
Author(s):
William Bradford
Margaret Wise Brown
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Illustrator(s):
Mary Wilson Stewart
Ocean-Born Mary (1939)
A girl born on the voyage from Ireland to America grows up in New Hampshire in the 1700’s.
Author(s):
Lois Lenski
Illustrator(s):
Lois Lenski