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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…
Tygart Valley Homesteads History

The Tygart Valley Homesteads: Pioneers of the Great Depression

By Barbara Bamberger-Scott
"Two days after Thanksgiving, hospitable Anna Eleanor Roosevelt…motored in a White House car from Washington to visit the Tygart Valley homestead project near Elkins, W.…
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…
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…
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. …
origin of the robin, homesteading History

The Origin of the Robin

By Jane Johnston Schoolcraft
  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…
covered wagons heading west homesteading History

Covered Wagons Heading West: Life on the Oregon Trail

By Catherine Lugo
  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…
Caroline Henderson History

A Woman in No Man’s Land: Caroline Henderson, Homesteader

By Barbara Bamberger-Scott
No one knows, or will ever fully understand, why Caroline Boa, daughter of a prosperous Iowa farmer, graduate of Mount Holyoke College in Massachusetts, a…
History of American Homesteading Part 4 History

The History of American Homesteading, Part 4: Generous Fruits That Never Fail

By Barbara Bamberger-Scott
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 town in northeast Arkansas, that…
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