Pioneer Days, Discover the Past with Fun Projects, Games, Activities, and Recipes by David C. King.  John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 1997.   $12.95 Paperback

Join twelve-year-old Sam Butler and his nine-year-old sister, Liz, on the American frontier in 1843.  Discover the hard work, fun and adventure of their daily lives, and along the way learn how to play games, make toys and crafts, and perform everyday activities just like Liz and Sam.

The Civil War for Kids: A History with 21 Activities by Janis Herbert.  Chicago review Press, 1999.  $14.95 Paperback

The Civil War explodes in  this activity guide spanning the turmoil preceding secession, the first shots fired at Fort Sumter, the fierce battles on land and sea, and finally the Confederate surrender at Appomattox.  Making butternut dye for a Rebel uniform, learning drills and signals with flags, decoding wigwag, baking hardtack, reenacting battles, and making a medicine kit bring this pivotal period in our nation’s history to life.

The Story of Texas by John Edward Weems compiled by Ron Stone.  Shearer Publishing, 1986.  $10.95

The story of Texas for children richly illustrated, by Tom Jones spanes entire history of this great state.

Camels for Uncle Sam by Diane Yancey.  Hendrick-Long Publishing Co, 1995.  $16.95 Hard cover

It was June 1856, five years before the first shots of the Civil War rang across America.  The scene might have taken place in Arabia, but this crowd wore buckskin, and the camels were on American, not Middle Eastern, soil.  The caravan, the first of its kind, had just arrived by ship from Egypt and Turkey.  It was under the protection of the United States soldiers, Texas was about to come face to face with the United States Camel Corps.

Young Troopers: Stories of Army children on the Frontier by Paige Ramsey-Palmer. Western National Parks Association, 1997.  $4.95 Paperback

In Young Troopers, you’ll read about real people who traveled west with the army, meeting Indians and living through adventures we can only imagine today.  Packed with historic photos and authentic illustrations that made you taste life in the wilderness and puts you on the frontier.

Children of the Wild West by Russell Freedman.  Houghton Mifflin Company, 1983.  $8.95 Paperback

This book details the adventures of children as they traveled west in a wagon train. Here is an unforgettable visit with American young people of the nineteenth-century American West.

Buffalo Soldiers by Dr. John P. Langellier, Cynthia Harnisch, and Franklin J. Henderson and others.  Cobblestone February 1995, Cobblestone Press.  $4.95 Paperback

History of the Buffalo Soldiers with activities.  A reprint of  Cobblestone Magazine for young people.

The Forgotten Heroes, The Story of the Buffalo Soldiers:  Clinton Cox.  Scholastic Inc.  $4.50

This is the story of the African-American soldiers who had hoped to find a freedom they had never known by joining the army. But, ironically, their military mission was to take freedom away from people who had always known it-Native Americans.

Games and Songs of American Children collected by William Wells Newell.  Dover Publications, Inc, 1963.  $12.95 Paperback

Unabridged reprint of the 2^nd, revised edition (1903).  This book is the pioneer study in American children’s games.  It contains scores of games that the author collected throughout the eastern half of the United States around the turn of the century.  It is the basic book in the field.

The Boy’s Own Book by William Clarke.  Applewood Books1996.  $12.95 Paperback

First published in Boston in 1829, this book is a guide for boy’s entertainment from the days before radio, movies and television.  The book is full of great advice on many sports and pastimes, including swimming, fishing and archery, as well as invaluable how-to instructions on everything from learning sign language, to making a pea-shooter, or a kite.  There are math, logic, and word games, science experiments, card tricks and even strategies for winning checkers.

The American Girls Handy Book by Lina Beard and Adelia B. Beard.  Nonpareil Books, David R. Godine, Publisher, Inc., 1987.  $12.95 Paperback

If Tom Sawyer had been a girl, Aunt Polly would certainly have seen to it that she had a copy of this book.  It’s a cornucopia of projects, devices, toys, gifts, dolls, recipes, decoration, perfumes, and clay modeling, oil and water-color painting and games, all with clear and practical directions for how to make and play them.  First published in 1887.

The American Boy’s Handy Book by D. C. Beard.  Nonpareil Books, David R. Godine, Publisher, Inc., 1983  $12.95 Paperback

If Huckleberry Finn were to settle down and decide to become an author, he might very well come up with this book.  This is the perfect survival manual.  It contains plans for 16 kinds of kites and hot-air balloons, and fishing tackle,  It told you how to make and stock an aquarium, to construct a water telescope and how to camp out without a tent.  How to build 10 kinds of boats, including flatboat with a covered cabin.  Bird calls. Squirt guns with astonishing range. First published in 1890.

Schoolyard Games by Bobbie Kalman and Heather Levigne.  Crabtree Publishing Company, 2001.  $7.95 Paperback

            Schoolyard games from the nineteenth-century.

Old-Time Toys by Bobbie Kalman and David Schimpky.  Crabtree Publishing Company, 1995.  $7.95 Paperback

            Old time toys from the nineteenth-century.

Children's Fashions Form "Godey's Lady's Book" Paper Dolls by Tom Tierney. Dover Publications, Inc, 1997. $5.95 Paperback

A charming fashion parade that offers an authentic look back at what well-to-do American children were wearing in the mid-nineteenth-century.

Children's Fashions of the Past in Photographs Edited by Alison Mager. Dover Publications,l Inc. 1978. $10.95 Paperback

165 studio photographs portray American and European children from the 1860s to the 1920s. The entire range of youthful fashion is displayed.

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