As we learned in "The Other Little House: The Poo Papers, Part 1", the great outdoors was—and for many in the world, still is—the place…
Okay, raise your hand if you have ever used a privy. My guess is that many over a certain age will have hands waving in…
I admit, I am very pro-Thanksgiving. What's not to like about Turkey Day? On what other holiday can we get together with family, spare a…
Clearly, it was not the best day in Daniel Freeman's life. He'd been on the trail for over three weeks, and the weather had been…
It was 1879, and the Civil War had been over just nine years, a war that had devastated the Commonwealth of Virginia as perhaps no…
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…
“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, the…
“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. …
