“The days of wilderness adventure are not past! The pioneer spirit is not dead!” These stirring words were written by one of America’s best-known homestead…
Just when I thought that my one apron, Old Faithful was all I needed, I found a cute vintage garment I call Miss Priss,…
“I had gone to bed one night, but could not sleep. My father was constantly in my mind. I seemed to feel that he…
Believe it or not, for most of the 150,000 odd years humans have been walking the earth, we couldn’t drink milk. Children drink milk of…
Who were the mountain men? They were the pathfinders of yore, lovers of nature, and fiercely independent. They lived and roamed the mountains and…
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. …
The year was 1886. Sears Roebuck helped homesteading happen quite by accident, but it happened at a time when the entrepreneurial and inventive spirit…
Just down the road from our house sits a sagging cabin made from hand-hewn logs with a low ceiling and raggedly sturdy stone fireplace…
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…
“Learn to do common things uncommonly well; we must always keep in mind that anything that helps fill the dinner pail is valuable.” – George…
"I believe the Great Creator has put oil and ores on this earth to give us a breathing spell. As we exhaust them, we…
Who can resist the spicy, sweet smell of freshly baked gingerbread, especially during the holidays? There is something about that smell and the memories it…
