Mrs. Cro-Magnon just got home with a basket of berries and tubers; she’s been foraging all day and has just enough food to feed her…
The year was 1886. Sears Roebuck helped homesteading happen quite by accident, but it happened at a time when the entrepreneurial and inventive spirit of…
She was an octogenarian, an artist, a naturalist, a visionary, a farm wife, and a mother of ten children. She has been immortalized on china…
A thoughtful young person in 2019 might ask, “What did people do before they had… [fill in the blank: cellphones, computers, netbooks, smart watches]…” And…
There are still those who think he was a myth, which is not so surprising considering the many ways he has been depicted in our…
It was strawberry season again. Strawberries are so good and so inexpensive around here. Despite the heavy rains in the early spring, late May promised…
Jane Johnston Schoolcraft (1800-1842) also known by her Objibwa name, which is translated as "Woman of the Sound the Stars Make Rushing Through the Sky",…
Amelia Stewart Knight knew the cross-country journey west would be a rough one; it was not for the weak or timid. The trip to Oregon…
Publisher's Note: The Origin of the Robin is a Chippewa story. Jane Johnston Schoolcraft said that all the Chippewa of her acquaintance said they remembered the…
An intrepid, independent soul, Mollie Dorsey was a homesteader in her teens, a gold rusher in her twenties, worked as a seamstress and a cook. She…
Rugged, self-sufficient, fiercely loyal – despite stereotypes to the contrary, the Appalachian mountaineers were, and are, an admirable people who developed a rich culture while…
"I believe the Great Creator has put oil and ores on this earth to give us a breathing spell. As we exhaust them, we must…
