Pintsized Pioneers at Play - Lewis, Preston; Kocher Lewis, Harriet
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Discover the Wild Side of Frontier Childhood! Pintsized Pioneers at Play: Homemade Frontier Fun and Danger explores the forgotten world of how kids lived, laughed-and sometimes limped-through their childhood years in the Old West. While their parents settled the land, these pintsized pioneers explored it, creating their own adventures with homemade toys, daring games, wild animal encounters, and risky escapades. This engaging sequel to the award-winning Pintsized Pioneers: Taming the Frontier, One Chore at a Time shines a spotlight on the joys and perils of play in a land still being tamed.…mehr

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Discover the Wild Side of Frontier Childhood! Pintsized Pioneers at Play: Homemade Frontier Fun and Danger explores the forgotten world of how kids lived, laughed-and sometimes limped-through their childhood years in the Old West. While their parents settled the land, these pintsized pioneers explored it, creating their own adventures with homemade toys, daring games, wild animal encounters, and risky escapades. This engaging sequel to the award-winning Pintsized Pioneers: Taming the Frontier, One Chore at a Time shines a spotlight on the joys and perils of play in a land still being tamed. From exploring the prairie and wrangling critters to celebrating frontier holidays and watching traveling circuses, this book reveals how children carved out fun and entertainment in a rough-and-tumble world. Learn how railroads and mail-order catalogs brought new toys, how schools and churches doubled as social hubs, and how a simple game could end in laughter-or injury. Written for young adults but fascinating for readers of all ages, Pintsized Pioneers at Play is packed with history, heart, and a hint of danger. Written at a tenth-grade reading level perfect for curious minds, Pintsized Pioneers at Play includes a glossary of related terms. Perfect for fans of Western history, educators, homeschoolers, and lovers of untold American stories!
Autorenporträt
Author and historian Preston Lewis has written more than 50 fiction and nonfiction works. In 2021 he was inducted into the Texas Institute of Letters for his literary accomplishments. His writing honors include two Spur Awards from Western Writers of America and three Elmer Kelton Awards from the West Texas Historical Association. He has received nine Will Rogers Medallion Awards for western humor, short stories, traditional westerns and nonfiction articles. In 2024 he earned an inaugural Literary Global Independent Author Award in the Western Nonfiction category for Cat Tales of the Old West as well as two finalist designations in the Memoir and Humor categories. Lewis is best known for his eight-book comic western series "The Memoirs of H.H. Lomax," which has garnered him a silver and three gold Will Rogers Medallion Awards. His nonfiction articles and short stories have appeared in True West, Wild West, Persimmon Hill, Journal of the Wild West Historical Association, Dallas Morning News, Dallas Times-Herald and Louis L'Amour Western Magazine. He is a past president of Western Writers of America and the West Texas Historical Association, which named him a fellow in 2016. Lewis holds degrees in journalism from Baylor and Ohio State universities and a master's degree in history from Angelo State University. He resides in San Angelo with his wife Harriet Kocher Lewis.