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Taylor Sm

Annie Oakley biography - 0 views

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      Annie Oakley was famous for her sharpshooting on the famous buffalo bill's wild west show
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    very helpful biography on annie oakley
Brittany W

Clara Brown Biography - Biography.com - 0 views

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      This is a helpful site i am getting lots of information on Clara Brown
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Laura Ingalls Wilder Biography - life, family, childhood, children, parents, name, stor... - 0 views

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  • Laura Ingalls Wilder was born Laura Elizabeth Ingalls on February 7, 1867, in Pepin, Wisconsin, the second of four children
  • Her mother, Caroline Lake Quiner, was educated, gentle, and proud, according to her daughter
  • Mary, Carrie, and Grace
  • ...23 more annotations...
  • younger brother, Charles, Jr. (nicknamed Freddie
  • died at the age of only nine months.
  • the Ingalls family left Wisconsin for Walnut Grove, Minnesota, where they lived at first in a dugout house.
  • Burr Oak, Iowa, where Charles became part-owner of a hotel.
  • they had all returned to Walnut Grove
  • homestead in the Dakota Territory
  • Laura Ingalls Wilder was born Laura Elizabeth Ingalls on February 7, 1867, in Pepin, Wisconsin, the second of four children .
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  • Her mother, Caroline Lake Quiner, was educated, gentle, and proud, according to her daughter .
  • Mary, Carrie, and Grace .
  • younger brother, Charles, Jr. (nicknamed Freddie ), who  died at the age of only nine months.
  • the Ingalls family left Wisconsin for Walnut Grove, Minnesota, where they lived at first in a dugout house
  • Burr Oak, Iowa, where Charles became part-owner of a hotel
  • they had all returned to Walnut Grove
  •  homestead in the Dakota Territory .
  • The family finally settled in what would become De Smet, South Dakota, which remained Charles and Caroline's home until they died.
  • worst on record.
  • Numerous blizzards prevented trains from delivering any supplies, essentially cutting off the town from December until May
  • Laura attended regular school whenever possible
  • she was largely self-taught.
  • In 1882, at the age of fifteen, she received her teaching certificate
  • taught at a small country school a dozen miles from her home in De Smet and boarded with a family who lived nearby.
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Biography of Maria Martinez and San Ildefonso Pottery - 1 views

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      This is a good sight for info but mainly photos
  • would watch her aunt making pots
  • Inexpensive Spanish tinware and
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  • Anglo enamelware had replaced traditional containers and cooking pots.
  • Maria was asked to replicate some pre-historic pottery styles that had been discovered in an archaeological excavation of an ancient pueblo site near San Ildefonso
  • Maria and Julian refined their pottery techniques and were asked to demonstrate their craft at several expositions, including the 1904 St. Louis World's Fair, the 1914 Panama-California Exposition in San Diego, and the 1934 Chicago World's Fair. Part of their success came from their innovations in the style of black-on-black ware.
  • Maria's interest and willingness to experiment with techniques prevented this from occurring.
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