Who were the mountain men? They were the pathfinders of yore, lovers of nature, and fiercely independent. They lived…
Just down the road from our house sits a sagging cabin made from hand-hewn logs with a low ceiling…
Watch any old movie about rural life, cow towns, farming, or homesteading, and you are bound to see at…
Captain John Smith told the English colonists under his sway “he who shall not work shall not eat.” It…
https://www.homestead.org/homesteading-history/history-of-american-homesteading-part1/ From the earliest days in the new united states, living involved networking. As we’ve already seen in Part…
https://www.homestead.org/homesteading-history/history-of-american-homesteading-part2/ "Come along, come along, make no delay, Come from every nation, come from every way, Our lands they are…
https://www.homestead.org/homesteading-history/history-of-american-homesteading-part3/ Johnny Cash (1932-2003) attracted myths like a big, square-shouldered magnet. It’s true that he was born in a clapped-out…
https://www.homestead.org/history/the-history-of-american-homesteading-part4/ Modern American homesteading, to misquote The Bard, makes strange bedfellows. Who can deny that communists, communalists, socialists, utopians, fundamentalists,…
Mark Twain was born in the hamlet of Florida; “Black Jack Pershing on a farm near Laclede; George Washington Carver,…
"Letters of a Woman Homesteader" continued: Dear, dear Mrs. Coney,— Well, I have filed on my land and am now…