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Great Pioneer Projects You Can Build Yourself

Buy It NowGreat Pioneer Projects You Can Build Yourself
Rachel Dickinson, Illustrated by Shawn Braley

What was it like to be an American pioneer during the 1800s? Great Pioneer Projects You Can Build Yourself introduces readers ages 9 and up to the settling of the great American frontier with over 25 hands-on building projects and activities. Young learners build replica sod houses, log cabins, and covered wagons, and create their own printing presses and maps. Great Pioneer Projects You Can Build Yourself provides detailed step-by-step instructions, diagrams, and templates for creating each project. Historical facts and anecdotes, biographies, and fascinating trivia support the fun projects and teach readers about the American pioneers' relentless push westward. Together they give kids a first-hand look at daily life on the trail and on the frontier. Great Pioneer Projects brings the American Pioneer experience to life.

Did you know? 1. One out of every ten American pioneers died on the trail west. 2. Covered wagons took five days to cover the same distance a modern car can travel in an hour. 3. More than 90,000 gold miners rushed to California to strike it rich in the Gold Rush. 4. Many prairie settlers' first homes were made out of bricks of grass because there were no trees to cut for wood.