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Frontier Living

1961 children's history book

Manuscripts, fine bindings, an engraving plate and preserved performance ephemera
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJan 12, 2026
Entity authorityQ137591416 ↗
Source-derived summary

Frontier Living is a 1961 United States history book written and illustrated by Edwin Tunis. The book explores the lives of settlers living on the frontier, starting with the Jamestown Colony in 1607, and how their lives changed as the country expanded westward. Tunis drew over 200 drawings for the book, ranging from maps, still lives of tools like looms, and landscapes. The book was recognized with a Newbery Honor in 1962.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Frontier Living” as 1961 children's history book. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA useful identification and reception guide that helps separate the work itself from editions, performances, ownership and later interpretation. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1961, 1607, 1962—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Frontier, Living and children's can be independently traced.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

The subject matters to the arts & letters register because the source frames it as 1961 children's history book. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

Evidence profile

Attribution, date and provenance are strongest when supported by the original work, a catalogue record and documented transmission. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jan 12, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q137591416. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1961, 1607 and 1962.

Critical limits

Later fame can flatten the distinction between original context, subsequent adaptation and institutional collecting history. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

Separate the work, its editions or performances, and its later reception. Catalogue records, publication histories and object files often preserve different parts of that story.

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  • Identifying works and editions
  • Tracing reception history
  • Finding collection records
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The original object or edition, catalogue raisonné, performance record, rights file and holding institution.

Three-step research path

  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “Frontier Living”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Frontier Living primary sources, Frontier Living archive and Frontier research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

  1. Which source most directly establishes the central claim about “Frontier Living”?
  2. How did later circulation or interpretation alter the work’s reception?
  3. Which edition, object, performance or recording is being described?
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Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from “Frontier Living” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.