Treasures in the Trunk

Author: Mary Bywater Cross
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 200

Book Description
Between 1840 and 1870, a quarter of a million Americans crossed the continent to Oregon and California in what was considered one of the great migrations of modern times?Thousands of women arrived in the Northwest by way of the Oregon Trail. This migration or "leave-taking" would consume the longest time and widest distance for these nineteenth-century women to establish new homes for themselves and their loved ones." ? from the book This beautifully illustrated volume recounts the stories of the women who traveled the Oregon Trail. Includes their reasons for traveling west and the hardships that they encountered. Index and bibliography. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.

Quilts of the Oregon Trail

Author: Mary Bywater Cross
Publisher: Schiffer Craft
ISBN:
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 188

Book Description
Presents quilts as documents of history that help us learn about the lives and experiences of the many women who traveled the Oregon Trail from 1840-1870. Features 56 quilts made before, during, and after the journey, shown in full color along with vintage photos of the makers and historical background. Includes multiple appendices, glossary, and extensive bibliography.

Quilts and Women of the Mormon Migrations

Author: Mary Bywater Cross
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 280

Book Description
Examines the quilts and personal histories of Mormon pioneer women who crossed the U.S. in the 19th century.

A Scrapbook of Quilts

Author: Joanna Figueroa
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781734931648
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 173

Book Description

Amanda Pig and the Really Hot Day

Author: Jean Van Leeuwen
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780738383095
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 48

Book Description
Amanda Pig and her family and friends try to find different ways to beat the heat.

Temperance Creek

Author: Pamela Royes
Publisher: Catapult
ISBN: 1619028832
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 340

Book Description
In the early seventies, some of us were shot like stars from our parents' homes. This was an act of nature, bigger than ourselves. In the austere beauty and natural reality of Hell's Canyon of Eastern Oregon, one hundred miles from pavement, Pam, unable to identify with her parent's world and looking for deeper pathways has a chance encounter with returning Vietnam warrior Skip Royes. Skip, looking for a bridge from survival back to connection, introduces Pam to the vanishing culture of the wandering shepherd and together they embark on a four–year sojourn into the wilderness. From the back of a horse, Pam leads her packstring of readers from overlook to water crossing, down trails two thousand years old, and from the vantages she chooses for us, we feel the edges of our own experiences. It is a memoir of falling in love with a place and a man and the price extracted for that love. Written with deep lyricism, Temperance Creek is a work of haunting beauty, fresh and irreverent and rooted in the grit and pleasure of daily life. This is Pam's story, but the courage and truth in the telling is part of our human experience. Seen through a slower more primary mirror, one not so crowded with objectivity, Pam's memoir, is a kind of home–coming, a family reunion for shooting stars.

Aurora

Author: Jane Kirkpatrick
Publisher: WaterBrook Press
ISBN: 9781400074280
Category : Aurora Colony (Marion County, Or.)
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
With hundreds of photographs, many historical and never-before published, this beautiful book celebrates the lives of a community that had lived out its faith in spare yet splendid ways.

Barn Quilts and the American Quilt Trail Movement

Author: Suzi Parron
Publisher: Ohio University Press
ISBN: 0804040494
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 245

Book Description
The story of the American Quilt Trail, featuring the colorful patterns of quilt squares painted large on barns throughout North America, is the story of one of the fastest-growing grassroots public arts movements in the United States and Canada. In Barn Quilts and the American Quilt Trail Movement Suzi Parron takes us to twenty-five states as well as Canada to visit the people and places that have put this movement on America’s tourist and folk art map. Through dozens of interviews with barn quilt artists, committee members, and barn owners, Parron documents a journey that began in 2001 with the founder of the movement, Donna Sue Groves. Groves’s desire to honor her mother with a quilt square painted on their barn became a group effort that eventually grew into a county-wide project. Today, quilt squares form a long imaginary clothesline, appearing on more than three thousand barns scattered along one hundred and twenty driving trails. With more than eighty full-color photographs, Parron documents here a movement that combines rural economic development with an American folk art phenomenon.

Women's Voices from the Oregon Trail

Author: Susan G. Butruille
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780963483980
Category : Frontier and pioneer life
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Tracing the trail and tracking down and writing about places of interest about women: landmarks, statues, signposts, markers, gravestones.

An American Quilt

Author: Rachel May
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 168177478X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 463

Book Description
Rachel May’s rich new book explores the far reach of slavery, from New England to the Caribbean, the role it played in the growth of mercantile America, and the bonds between the agrarian south and the industrial north in the antebellum era—all through the discovery of a remarkable quilt. While studying objects in a textile collection, May opened a veritable treasure-trove: a carefully folded, unfinished quilt made of 1830sera fabrics, its backing containing fragile, aged papers with the dates 1798, 1808, and 1813, the words “shuger,” “rum,” “casks,” and “West Indies,” repeated over and over, along with “friendship,” “kindness,” “government,” and “incident.” The quilt top sent her on a journey to piece together the story of Minerva, Eliza, Jane, and Juba—the enslaved women behind the quilt—and their owner, Susan Crouch. May brilliantly stitches together the often-silenced legacy of slavery by revealing the lives of these urban enslaved women and their world. Beautifully written and richly imagined, An American Quilt is a luminous historical examination and an appreciation of a craft that provides such a tactile connection to the past.