Frontier America: The Story of the Westward MovementScribner, 1959 - 832 Seiten |
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... house became popular . Log cabins were left off to one side to be used as out- houses or were destroyed altogether the moment the settler could build a more commodious home of square hewn logs . Log houses differed some- what in design ...
... house became popular . Log cabins were left off to one side to be used as out- houses or were destroyed altogether the moment the settler could build a more commodious home of square hewn logs . Log houses differed some- what in design ...
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... houses on the plains were either " dug - outs " or " sod houses . " Dug - outs were cut into hillsides and banks . They were lighted and ventilated with improvised doors and windows . Sod houses were constructed from clumps of sod cut ...
... houses on the plains were either " dug - outs " or " sod houses . " Dug - outs were cut into hillsides and banks . They were lighted and ventilated with improvised doors and windows . Sod houses were constructed from clumps of sod cut ...
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... house . At first these sod houses are unplastered , and this thought perfectly allright , but such a house is somewhat cold in the winter as the crevices between the sods admit some cold air ; so some of the houses are plastered with a ...
... house . At first these sod houses are unplastered , and this thought perfectly allright , but such a house is somewhat cold in the winter as the crevices between the sods admit some cold air ; so some of the houses are plastered with a ...
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CHAPTER PAGE I The American FrontierA Perspective | 2 |
The Allegheny Frontier | 26 |
The Frontier at War | 54 |
Urheberrecht | |
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