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Description edit
Accessible in style, Plain Buggies presents the most complete work on the transportation modes of the "plain people" published to date. includes details on prices, styles, laws, stories.
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First Sentence edit
Uninformed travelers may be suddenly alarmed if confronted with a horse and buggy traveling down the road driven by a somberly dressed man in a large black hat or a woman wearing a face-concealing bonnet.
Table of Contents edit
Chapter 1—Why Horses and Buggies?
Chapter 2—Buggy Use Today
Chapter 3—Buggy Manufacturing
Chapter 4—Horses
Chapter 5—Harness
Chapter 6—Buggies and the Law
Chapter 7—Harassment
Chapter 8—Alternate Transportation
Chapter 9—What Are the Main Buggy Styles?
Chapter 10—Pennsylvania
Chapter 11—Ohio
Chapter 12—Indiana
Chapter 13—Swiss
Chapter 14—Old Order Mennonites
Chapter 15—Other Groups
Glossary
Readings and Sources
Index
Author
Series & Lists edit
This is book 3 of 12 in People's Place Books. (standard series)
Preceded by Quiet and Peaceable Life, and followed by Quilts Among the Plain People.
Authors & Contributors edit
- Stephen Scott (Author)
Classification edit
- Library of Congress: Add the Library of Congress Classification.
- Dewey: 289
Subjects edit
- Books › Religion & Spirituality › Christianity › Protestantism › Amish
- Books › Religion & Spirituality › Christianity › Protestantism › Mennonite
- Books › Nonfiction › Social Sciences › Anthropology › Physical
- Books › Religion & Spirituality › Christianity › Christian Living
- Books › Nonfiction › Transportation
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