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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 the…
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…
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

Living to Tell the Homesteading Tale

By Barbara Bamberger-Scott
Life is full of surprises, and few people would have known that better than the Americans who participated in the land rushes and homestead movements…
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…
Matilda-Glover-Koontz-Jackson-home History

Matilda Jackson: Making a Home on the Last Frontier

By Barbara Bamberger-Scott
Sometimes the best plans go awry, and for intrepid female Matilda Glover Koontz Jackson, first aspirations of pioneering could easily have ended somewhere along the…
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 Oregon…
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 Henderson, nee Boa, daughter of a prosperous Iowa farmer, graduate of Mount Holyoke College in…
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.…
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…
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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