When we think of pioneers on the Allegheny frontier, and how it was that they passed the long winter months, our imaginations may have been influenced by having seen too many old-fashioned paintings of frontier life, such as the famous one by Eastman Johnson showing a young Abe Lincoln reading by firelight, or too [...]
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Winter on the frontier: what they lived in
Posted in Pringle brothers, Virginia frontier, frontier winter, half-face shelter, hollow tree on February 10, 2009 | 2 Comments »
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