Menu-icon
You have no items in your shopping cart.
Close

A Settler's Year: Pioneer Life through the Seasons

$29.95
Hardcover
200 pages, 179 color and b&w photos, 8 x 9
ISBN: 9780870207143

Published by Wisconsin Historical Society Press

Ordering for retail, wholesale, school, library, or other tax-exempt organization?
- +

By Kathleen Ernst
Photographs by Loyd Heath


"This is a book with great meaning for those of us who grew up on farms, and a book to be shared with young people eager to know more about pioneer life. —Jerry Apps, author of Old Farm: A History and Whispers and Shadows: A Naturalist’s Memoir

A Settler’s Year provides a rare glimpse into the lives of early immigrants to the upper Midwest. Evocative photographs taken at Old World Wisconsin, the country’s largest outdoor museum of rural life, lushly illustrate stories woven by historian, novelist, and poet Kathleen Ernst and compelling firsthand accounts left by the settlers themselves.

In this beautiful book, readers will discover the challenges and triumphs found in the seasonal rhythms of rural life in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. As they turn the pages--traveling from sprawling farm to tidy crossroads village, and from cramped and smoky cabins to gracious, well-furnished homes--they’ll experience the back-straining chores, cherished folk traditions, annual celebrations, and indomitable spirit that comprised pioneer life.

At its heart A Settler’s Year is about people dreaming of, searching for, and creating new homes in a new land. This moving book transports us back to the pioneer era and inspires us to explore the stories found on our own family trees.

By Kathleen Ernst
Photographs by Loyd Heath


"This is a book with great meaning for those of us who grew up on farms, and a book to be shared with young people eager to know more about pioneer life. —Jerry Apps, author of Old Farm: A History and Whispers and Shadows: A Naturalist’s Memoir

A Settler’s Year provides a rare glimpse into the lives of early immigrants to the upper Midwest. Evocative photographs taken at Old World Wisconsin, the country’s largest outdoor museum of rural life, lushly illustrate stories woven by historian, novelist, and poet Kathleen Ernst and compelling firsthand accounts left by the settlers themselves.

In this beautiful book, readers will discover the challenges and triumphs found in the seasonal rhythms of rural life in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. As they turn the pages--traveling from sprawling farm to tidy crossroads village, and from cramped and smoky cabins to gracious, well-furnished homes--they’ll experience the back-straining chores, cherished folk traditions, annual celebrations, and indomitable spirit that comprised pioneer life.

At its heart A Settler’s Year is about people dreaming of, searching for, and creating new homes in a new land. This moving book transports us back to the pioneer era and inspires us to explore the stories found on our own family trees.

Products specifications
Details
PublisherWisconsin Historical Society Press
ISBN Number

978-0-87020-714-3

Publication Year2015
Page Count200
IllustrationsXXXXXX
Format/BindingHardcover
Trim Size8 x 9 inches
Write your own review
*
*
  • Bad
  • Excellent
*
*
*
*
Products specifications
Details
PublisherWisconsin Historical Society Press
ISBN Number

978-0-87020-714-3

Publication Year2015
Page Count200
IllustrationsXXXXXX
Format/BindingHardcover
Trim Size8 x 9 inches
Product tags
Customers who bought this item also bought
When White Pine was King by Jerry Apps

When the White Pine was King: A History of Lumberjacks, Log Drives, and Sawdust Cities in Wisconsin

When the White Pine Was King tells the stories of the heyday of logging, of lumberjacks and camp cooks, of river drives and deadly log jams, of sawmills and lumber towns and the echo of the ax ringing through the Northwoods as yet another white pine crashed to the ground. Full details below.

Published by Wisconsin Historical Society Press
Ordering for retail, wholesale, school, library, or other tax-exempt organization?
$22.95
Creating Dairyland book cover featuring illustration of barn with animals

Creating Dairyland

Paperback: $26.95
232 pages, 120 b/w and color photos, 7 x 9"
ISBN:9780870204630

Published by Wisconsin Historical Society Press

Ordering for retail, wholesale, school, library, or other tax-exempt organization?
$26.95
Picture of Old World Wisconsin Lavender Soap

Old World Wisconsin Lavender Soap

French-milled lavender soap. A favorite at the museum store at Old World Wisconsin. Wonderful fresh lavender scent. Buy more and save!
From $4.35
Germans in Wisconsin book cover featuring black and white image of German people standing outside of shop

Germans in Wisconsin (Revised and Expanded)

Learn about the values and ideas the Germans brought with them from the Old Country, including their achievements on the farm, in the workplace and in academia over the course of 150 years in Wisconsin.4

Published by Wisconsin Historical Society Press

Ordering for retail, wholesale, school, library, or other tax-exempt organization?
$12.95