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Patent, Dorothy Hinshaw

Homesteading: Settling America's Heartland

32 pp. | Walker | September, 1998 | Trade ISBN 0-8027-8664-2 $$16.95 | Library ISBN 0-8027-8665-0 $$17.85
(3) 4-6 Photographs by William Muñoz. Seven short chapters describe the grueling daily life of those who settled the prairies after the 1862 Homestead Act. Topics covered include building a soddy and planting, harvesting, and storing crops. The color photographs--many of which are of cleaned-up museum pieces or houses--may not accurately portray homesteading life, but the text clearly conveys the hard work done by homestead families. Ind.
Reviewer: Pamela McCuen

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