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The Long Winter (Little House, #6)
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avg rating 4.18 — 95,205 ratings — published 1940
By the Shores of Silver Lake (Little House, #5)
by (shelved 3 times as pioneering)
avg rating 4.18 — 85,279 ratings — published 1939
Little Town on the Prairie (Little House, #7)
by (shelved 3 times as pioneering)
avg rating 4.20 — 95,857 ratings — published 1941
On the Banks of Plum Creek (Little House, #4)
by (shelved 3 times as pioneering)
avg rating 4.23 — 110,515 ratings — published 1937
Farmer Boy (Little House, #2)
by (shelved 3 times as pioneering)
avg rating 4.10 — 78,032 ratings — published 1933
Little House in the Big Woods (Little House, #1)
by (shelved 3 times as pioneering)
avg rating 4.21 — 294,056 ratings — published 1932
These Happy Golden Years (Little House, #8)
by (shelved 3 times as pioneering)
avg rating 4.22 — 81,373 ratings — published 1943
Areté: Activate Your Heroic Potential (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as pioneering)
avg rating 4.55 — 1,661 ratings — published 2023
Little House on the Prairie (Little House, #3)
by (shelved 2 times as pioneering)
avg rating 4.21 — 307,593 ratings — published 1935
Little House on Rocky Ridge (Little House: The Rocky Ridge Years, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as pioneering)
avg rating 3.94 — 19,056 ratings — published 1993
A Little House Sampler: A Collection of Early Stories and Reminiscenses (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as pioneering)
avg rating 4.22 — 3,865 ratings — published 1988
The First Four Years (Little House, #9)
by (shelved 2 times as pioneering)
avg rating 3.87 — 46,487 ratings — published 1971
Life Along the Apalachicola River (American Chronicles)
by (shelved 1 time as pioneering)
avg rating 4.71 — 7 ratings — published 2014
Artificial Intimacy: Who We Become When We Talk to Machines (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as pioneering)
avg rating 4.07 — 247 ratings — published 2026
The Ohio Frontier: An Anthology of Early Writings (Ohio River Valley Series)
by (shelved 1 time as pioneering)
avg rating 4.00 — 16 ratings — published 1996
Dominion: The Railway and the Rise of Canada (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as pioneering)
avg rating 4.18 — 1,070 ratings — published 2023
Women of the Frontier: 16 Tales of Trailblazing Homesteaders, Entrepreneurs, and Rabble-Rousers (3) (Women of Action)
by (shelved 1 time as pioneering)
avg rating 3.78 — 277 ratings — published 2013
Traces (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as pioneering)
avg rating 4.32 — 410 ratings — published 2022
Prairie Fires: The American Dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as pioneering)
avg rating 3.96 — 23,088 ratings — published 2017
Strawberry Girl (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as pioneering)
avg rating 3.88 — 14,215 ratings — published 1945
Hearts West: True Stories Of Mail-Order Brides On The Frontier (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as pioneering)
avg rating 3.54 — 964 ratings — published 2005
Daniel Boone: The Opening of the Wilderness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as pioneering)
avg rating 3.78 — 119 ratings — published 1952
Frontier Teachers: Stories Of Heroic Women Of The Old West, First Edition (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as pioneering)
avg rating 3.72 — 109 ratings — published 2008
Gap Creek (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as pioneering)
avg rating 3.75 — 55,247 ratings — published 1999
The World in 1800 (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as pioneering)
avg rating 3.90 — 146 ratings — published 2000
The Hinterlands: A Mountain Tale in Three Parts (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as pioneering)
avg rating 3.80 — 269 ratings — published
Clare Leighton's Rural Life: An Anthology (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as pioneering)
avg rating 4.71 — 7 ratings — published
The Second World (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as pioneering)
avg rating 3.79 — 462 ratings — published 2026
The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as pioneering)
avg rating 3.97 — 3,351 ratings — published 1958
Redigging the wells: A remarkable account of rural renewal (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as pioneering)
avg rating 4.00 — 4 ratings — published
Pioneer Practice (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as pioneering)
avg rating 4.67 — 3 ratings — published 2021
Table Talk: Appalachian Meals and Memories (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as pioneering)
avg rating 4.14 — 7 ratings — published 1995
North of the Sun: A Memoir of the Alaskan Wilderness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as pioneering)
avg rating 4.28 — 79 ratings — published 1990
The Train to Estelline (Lucinda Richards Trilogy)
by (shelved 1 time as pioneering)
avg rating 3.83 — 310 ratings — published 1987
Classic Quilts (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as pioneering)
avg rating 4.00 — 4 ratings — published 1997
How the West Was Won (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as pioneering)
avg rating 4.06 — 3,845 ratings — published 1962
Learn to Sail in a Weekend (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as pioneering)
avg rating 3.81 — 16 ratings — published 1991
The Which Way Tree (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as pioneering)
avg rating 4.16 — 4,276 ratings — published 2018
A Midwife's Tale: The Life of Martha Ballard, Based on Her Diary, 1785-1812 (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as pioneering)
avg rating 3.96 — 10,156 ratings — published 1990
Ox-Cart Man (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as pioneering)
avg rating 4.10 — 15,578 ratings — published 1979
A Lion to Guard Us: An Acclaimed Historical Novel of Courage and Survival for Children (Ages 8–12)
by (shelved 1 time as pioneering)
avg rating 3.77 — 3,174 ratings — published 1981
The Courage of Sarah Noble (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as pioneering)
avg rating 3.93 — 8,443 ratings — published 1954
Famous Florida Recipes: 300 Years of Good Eating (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as pioneering)
avg rating 5.00 — 1 rating — published 1997
Country Cooking (Famous Florida!)
by (shelved 1 time as pioneering)
avg rating 0.0 — 0 ratings — published 1990
Cracker Girl: Remembrance of Growing Up in Rural Florida in the 1940s and 1950s (Unknown Binding)
by (shelved 1 time as pioneering)
avg rating 0.0 — 0 ratings — published
Campfires Of The Everglades: Or Wild Sports In The South (1897)
by (shelved 1 time as pioneering)
avg rating 4.50 — 2 ratings — published 2010
Fabulous Florida: Florida's story for children (Unknown Binding)
by (shelved 1 time as pioneering)
avg rating 0.0 — 0 ratings — published
across the everglades (Unknown Binding)
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avg rating 0.0 — 0 ratings — published
Trials of the Earth: The True Story of a Pioneer Woman (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as pioneering)
avg rating 3.93 — 3,378 ratings — published 1992
“The nice thing about pioneering a new disease is you get to name it.”
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“The man who had the best stock of health and the most faith and pluck, was the most wealthy, for we were all capitalists in those days. Each one expected to help himself, and as a rule all went to work with energy to open up the country and make homes for themselves, and at the same time they were ever ready to help each other in case of need or misfortune, and I will presume to say that if the people now possessed more of the spirit that then actuated the “old moss backs,” as some reproachfully style the old settlers, we would hear less about a conflict between labor and capital, which in truth is largely a conflict between labor and laziness. We had no eight hour, nor even ten hour days then, and I never heard of any one striking, not even an Indian”
― Pioneer Days on Puget Sound
― Pioneer Days on Puget Sound