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Mollie Dorsey Sanford, homesteader, frontier wife, frontier life, homestead, homesteading History

Mollie Dorsey Sanford: Frontier Wife, Frontier Life

By Barbara Bamberger-Scott
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…
George Washington Carver, peanut man, homesteading Flowers and Horticulture

The Peanut Man: George Washington Carver

By Barbara Bamberger-Scott
"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…
The Exodusters: The Roots of African American Homesteaders History

The Exodusters: The Roots of African American Homesteading

By Barbara Bamberger-Scott
History’s ironies never cease to amaze me. The same day that Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation, on January 1, 1863, the Homestead Act went…
homesteading, A Town Named Audacious Nebraska, African American Homesteaders, DeWitty Nebraska, Black settlers History

A Town Named Audacious and African American Homesteaders

By Barbara Bamberger-Scott
“Learn to do common things uncommonly well; we must always keep in mind that anything that helps fill the dinner pail is valuable.” – George…
History

The First Homesteader: Daniel Freeman

By Neil Shelton
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…
Women on the Great Plains History

Home Alone: Women on the Great Plains

By Barbara Bamberger-Scott
“I had gone to bed one night, but could not sleep. My father was constantly in my mind. I seemed to feel that he was…
History

Willa Cather: My Ántonia and the Settlement of the Great Plains

By Barbara Bamberger-Scott
"There was nothing but land; not a country at all, but the material out of which countries are made… I had the feeling that the…
black woman homesteader history, african american woman homesteader history History

Black, Female, and Homesteader

By Barbara Bamberger-Scott
It was tough to be Black in the U.S. in the era of “reconstruction” which some people frankly think of as a continuation—for African Americans—of…
Norvel Blair Colony History

The Blair Colony: Freed Slaves Homesteading in the Dakota Territory

By Barbara Bamberger-Scott
In the space of a few short months, two momentous and highly positive events occurred in America, even as the Civil War was at its…
dearfield colorado black homesteading, homestead History

Dearfield: A Dream Lost to Drought and Depression

By Barbara Bamberger-Scott
It’s a story with a simple, but remarkable, beginning. In 1910 a Black American entrepreneur joined forces with a legendary spokesman for Black innovation to…
Generous Fruits, A Survey of American Homesteading Book Reviews

Generous Fruits – A Survey of American Homesteading: A Book Review

By Neil Shelton
Have you ever wondered why, when so much of the homesteading lifestyle deals with the practices and philosophies of the past, no comprehensive history of…
Laura Ingalls Wilder home History

The View from Laura Ingalls Wilder’s Little House: A True Pioneer Woman

By Barbara Bamberger-Scott
“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…

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