Frontier Ways: Sketches of Life in the Old West
Edward Everett Dale gives a first-hand account of the way pioneer families and cowboys of the frontier lived. Dr. Dale has lived in a sod house, and he once rode the range as cook to a group of cowboys. In this book he draws on his varied experiences to describe all aspects of frontier life—the building of a home, the problems of finding wood and water, the procuring and cooking of food, medical practices, and the cultural, social, and religious life of pioneer families.

This edition is a digital facsimile of the 1959 edition.

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Frontier Ways: Sketches of Life in the Old West
Edward Everett Dale gives a first-hand account of the way pioneer families and cowboys of the frontier lived. Dr. Dale has lived in a sod house, and he once rode the range as cook to a group of cowboys. In this book he draws on his varied experiences to describe all aspects of frontier life—the building of a home, the problems of finding wood and water, the procuring and cooking of food, medical practices, and the cultural, social, and religious life of pioneer families.

This edition is a digital facsimile of the 1959 edition.

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Frontier Ways: Sketches of Life in the Old West

Frontier Ways: Sketches of Life in the Old West

by Edward Everett Dale
Frontier Ways: Sketches of Life in the Old West

Frontier Ways: Sketches of Life in the Old West

by Edward Everett Dale

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Edward Everett Dale gives a first-hand account of the way pioneer families and cowboys of the frontier lived. Dr. Dale has lived in a sod house, and he once rode the range as cook to a group of cowboys. In this book he draws on his varied experiences to describe all aspects of frontier life—the building of a home, the problems of finding wood and water, the procuring and cooking of food, medical practices, and the cultural, social, and religious life of pioneer families.

This edition is a digital facsimile of the 1959 edition.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780292724624
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Publication date: 06/01/1959
Series: Personal Narratives of the West
Pages: 279
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.63(d)

About the Author

Edward Everett Dale (1879-1972) was Research Professor of History at the University of Oklahoma.

Table of Contents

  • Foreword
  • I. The Romance of the Range
  • II. Cowboy Cookery
  • III. American Frontier Culture
  • IV. From Log Cabin to Sod House
  • V. Wood and Water: Twin Problems of the Prairie Plains …
  • VI. Food of the Frontier
  • VII. The Social Homesteader
  • VIII. Teaching on the Prairie Plains, 1890-1900
  • IX. The Frontier Literary Society
  • X. Frontier Medical Practices
  • XI. The Old-Time Religion
  • XII. Old Navajoe: A Typical Frontier Town
  • Index
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