Word: 19th
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...fitting point of departure from Concord is Sleepy Hollow, a pleasant wooded ramble where 19th century Concordians used to take the air. Many of them linger there still. Sleepy Hollow is now a cemetery whose residents include the Alcotts, Emerson, Hawthorne, Lothrop and Thoreau...
...account of their sojourn in Burr Oak has never been published, and true fans will not want to miss it. The hotel is the only one of Laura's girlhood homes that remains on its original site. It has been restored and outfitted with furnishings authentic for the late 19th century, and it is easy to imagine little Laura scampering about the building and grounds with her sisters...
...Little House memoirs, Laura Ingalls Wilder so vividly limned the homesteads and Midwestern landscapes of her 19th century pioneering girlhood that millions of Americans know them as well as they do their own home and backyard. So engaging is Wilder's prose that after finishing all nine volumes, many can't bear to stop. Instead, they retrace Wilder's frontier by reading the series again and again, first to themselves and later to their children...
...City Territorial Enterprise in the early 1860s, chronicling the town's gold- and silver-fueled rise. His recollections of that time also appear in his autobiographical Roughing It. The population has dwindled from 28,000 to 800, but the town remains lively. Families can stay at one of several 19th century hotels and tour the museums commemorating Twain and the strike-it-rich era. Children will particularly enjoy going underground to visit the Chollar Mine. If you can, time your visit to coincide with the Bonanza Days Gunfighter Championships, June 18-20, or the Storey County Jumping Frog Jubilee, July...
...American Wild West, but there's a mother lode of adventure to be mined out there. Many of the old towns are alive and well, still surrounded by soaring forests and roaring rivers--and mapped for all posterity by the likes of John Muir, Mark Twain and other great 19th century writers...