Follows three families as they recreate the lives of Western homesteaders.

An intimate view of frontier women--Anglo and Indian--and the communities they forged.

On America’s western frontier, myths of prosperity concealed the brutal conditions endured by women, slaves, orphans, and the poor. As poverty and unrest took

Topics: getting there, homes, food and clothing, tasks and chores, dangers and hardships, frontier schools, fun and amusements, justice, towns, heroes and heroi