The first frontier : life in Colonial America / John Chester Miller
By: Miller, John Chester.
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TextPublisher: New York : Dell Pub. Co., 1966Description: 283 p.Subject(s): Frontier and pioneer life | United StatesDDC classification: 917.3032 M647F 1966 Summary: This book is an original recreation of the way in which colonists lived, from the Puritan dwellings of New England to the Cavalier plantations of the South. In the words of contemporary observers, bridged by an absorbing running narrative, the reader is given insight into the human world of the colonists who made the foundations for early American life. With richness, humor and sometimes a pompous piety, colonials and those who visited them comment on courtship, marriage, children, education, food and drink, sports and recreation, religion, crime and punishment, slavery and other aspects of their society. - Back cover.
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This book is an original recreation of the way in which colonists lived, from the Puritan dwellings of New England to the Cavalier plantations of the South. In the words of contemporary observers, bridged by an absorbing running narrative, the reader is given insight into the human world of the colonists who made the foundations for early American life. With richness, humor and sometimes a pompous piety, colonials and those who visited them comment on courtship, marriage, children, education, food and drink, sports and recreation, religion, crime and punishment, slavery and other aspects of their society. - Back cover.
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