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Supper in the evening / by Al Barnes ; text illustrations by Bud Weert.

Barnes, Al, 1904- (Author). Weert, Bud. (Added Author).

Summary:

"... paints a colorful and detailed picture of pioneer living in Michigan. The diary and letters of a Michigan volunteer in the Union Army present a vivid day-to-day account of the life a an enlisted man in the Civil War." Provided by publisher.

Record details

Physical Description: vii, 251 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Publisher: Traverse City, Mich. : Horizon Books, ©1985, 1967.

Content descriptions

Formatted Contents Note:

In the year of our Lord, 1610 -- Civil War reaches the North -- Sgt. Home B. Potter, hero -- Army of the Grand Traverse -- Medical advice of a century ago -- Proem -- Era of the Opera House -- Was Mother a good cook? - Recipes of yesteryear -- Hleps for the Kitchen Queen -- Laugh, pioneer, laugh -- The Christian workers cam -- "A-pioneering we went" -- Before the rails and telegraph -- Postal service at the beginning -- Wilderness water -- An old settler speaks -- Doctor, lawyer, merchant, inventor -- Century notes.