{"product_id":"a-settlers-year-kathleen-ernst-9780870207143","title":"A Settler's Year: Pioneer Life Through the Seasons","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"This is a book with great meaning for those of us who grew up on farms, and a book to be shared with young people eager to know more about pioneer life.\" --Jerry Apps, author of \"Old Farm: A History\" and \"Whispers and Shadows: A Naturalist's Memoir\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"A Settler's Year\" provides a rare glimpse into the lives of early immigrants to the upper Midwest. Evocative photographs taken at Old World Wisconsin, the country's largest outdoor museum of rural life, lushly illustrate stories woven by historian, novelist, and poet Kathleen Ernst and compelling firsthand accounts left by the settlers themselves.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn this beautiful book, readers will discover the challenges and triumphs found in the seasonal rhythms of rural life in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. As they turn the pages--traveling from sprawling farm to tidy crossroads village, and from cramped and smoky cabins to gracious, well-furnished homes--they'll experience the back-straining chores, cherished folk traditions, annual celebrations, and indomitable spirit that comprised pioneer life.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAt its heart \"A Settler's Year\" is about people dreaming of, searching for, and creating new homes in a new land. This moving book transports us back to the pioneer era and inspires us to explore the stories found on our own family trees.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Kathleen Ernst\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0870207148\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780870207143\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Wisconsin Historical Society Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/31\/2015\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 200\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.70lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.10h x 8.30w x 0.80d","brand":"Kathleen Ernst","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":43947420319999,"sku":"9780870207143","price":29.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_533be7a2-3b33-46f2-a598-2872f0ee9ae9.jpg?v=1681518623","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/a-settlers-year-kathleen-ernst-9780870207143","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}