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Catherine E. Chambers
Norma Johnston was born in Ridgewood, New Jersey, USA, the only child of Marjorie (Pierce), a teacher and Charles Eugene Chambers Johnston, an engineer. She read voraciously--especially mysteries, to which her family was addicted. She was ducated at Ramsey public schools and Montclair State College, later studied acting at the American Theatre Wing and elsewhere, and received a teaching certificate from Montclair College. She was actress, director, designer, stylist, retailer, teacher, counselor, entrepreneur, preacher, editor, ... and in between all her other careers she was the author of more than 70 novels, mainly gothic romances for teens. Ever since 1973, she become a a full-time writer. She also wrote under the pseudonyms of Nicole St. John, Pamela Dryden, Lavinia Harris, Kate Chambers, Catherine E. Chambers, Elizabeth Bolton, and Adrian Robert.
Full Series List in Order
Adventures in Frontier America
1 - Daniel Boone and the Wilderness Road (Jun-1984)2 - Frontier Dream: Life on the Great Plains (Jun-1984)
3 - Log-Cabin Home: Pioneers in the Wilderness (Jul-1984)
4 - Wagons West: Off to Oregon (Jul-1984)
5 - Frontier Village: A Town Is Born (Jul-1984)
6 - Texas Roundup: Life on the Range (Jul-1984)
7 - Flatboats on the Ohio: Westward Bound (Jul-1984)
8 - California Gold Rush: Search for Treasure (Jul-1984)
9 - Frontier Farmer: Kansas Adventures (Jun-1984)
Book List in Order: 9 titles
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Daniel Boone and the Wilderness Road
- Jun-1984
- / Western
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Grandpa tells his family in 1827 about Daniel Boone's leadership in settling Kentucky....
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Frontier Dream: Life on the Great Plains
- Jun-1984
- / Western
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A Norwegian family suffers great hardship as they try to establish a farm on the plains of the Dakota territory in the 1870's....
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Frontier Farmer: Kansas Adventures
- Jun-1984
- / Western
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When Matt's father dies in 1881, he and his mother decide to stay on their Kansas homestead despite the perils of life on that frontier....
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California Gold Rush: Search for Treasure
- Jul-1984
- / Action Adventure
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In California in 1848 two brothers helping to build a sawmill for John Sutter witness the discovery of gold and decide to stake out a claim for themselves....
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Flatboats on the Ohio: Westward Bound
- Jul-1984
- / Western
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In 1836, the Sawyers leave Massachusetts to travel to the Ohio River valley for the beginning of a new life....
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Frontier Village: A Town Is Born
- Jul-1984
- / Western
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Recounts the growth of the town of Nesbitt's Crossing from the time the first settlers, the Nesbitt family, came to that area of Wisconsin in 1848....
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Log-Cabin Home: Pioneers in the Wilderness
- Jul-1984
- / Western
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In 1802 the Craley family set up a new home in Kentucky where they hope to find good land for farming....
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Texas Roundup: Life on the Range
- Jul-1984
- / Western
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In nineteenth-century Texas, a young boy learns a great deal about life on the range when he is at last allowed to accompany the ranch hands on the spring roundup....
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Wagons West: Off to Oregon
- Jul-1984
- / Western
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Two children travel with their older brother across the country by wagon train from Virginia to the Oregon Territory....
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