Del Norte Public Library

Photographs, anecdotes, and journal excerpts highlight a study of the frontier origins of American cookery, revealing the realities of pioneer life and the evolution of a Western style of cuisine.

"The popular image of the settling of the American West has primarily been of cowboys, soldiers, miners, and trappers--the white men. In Homesteading Women: An Oral History of Colorado, 1890-1950 Julie Jones-Eddy brings to light the reality of the frontier through the oral testimonies of some of the women whose strength and perseverance were essential to the establishment of families, farms, and communities in the West." "Homesteading Women is a compilation...

The life of Charles Henry Sharp parallel much of the folk, fiction and fantasy of the Old West. Stories from his past bring to life mush of the adventure, danger, trials and joy in the lives of those who lived the history of westward expansion.

The bullet that ended Edwina Sinclair’s life went into her husband’s chest. Their dream of a new life together in the gold rush town of Cripple Creek died with him. She escapes the ruthless gang that killed him, only to discover the local law is on the take. She must find justice on her own. Disguising herself as a boy and using skills she isn’t supposed to have, she makes her way in the gold-crazy town, intent on killing the gang leader to...

The activities of a young boy on a small farm in the Texas Cross Timbers during the 1880s seem especially distant today. No one can remember the adventure of a sixteen-and-a-half-mile journey, which consumed the greater part of a day, or hurried predawn dressing in a frosty cold loft while the fragrance of a hearty breakfast wafted upward through the floor cracks, or a two-room schoolhouse, where the last half of Friday afternoon was given over to...