Childhood on the Farm: Work, Play, and Coming of Age in the Midwest. By Pamela Riney-Kehrberg (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2005. vii plus 300 pp.).
Few historians still ask Frederick Jackson Turner's question: How did the encounter with the physical environment shape Americans' outlook, values, and behavior? Historians of rural children and families, following in the footsteps of such novelists as Willa Cather and Laura Ingalls Wilder, do, however, continue to explore ...