“I had gone to bed one night, but could not sleep. My father was constantly in my mind. I seemed…
"There was nothing but land; not a country at all, but the material out of which countries are made… I…
Life is full of surprises, and few people would have known that better than the Americans who participated in the…
No one knows, or will ever fully understand, why Caroline Henderson, nee Boa, daughter of a prosperous Iowa farmer, graduate…
Sometimes the best plans go awry, and for intrepid female Matilda Glover Koontz Jackson, first aspirations of pioneering could easily…
"Two days after Thanksgiving, hospitable Anna Eleanor Roosevelt…motored in a White House car from Washington to visit the Tygart Valley…
Amelia Stewart Knight knew the cross-country journey west would be a rough one; it was not for the weak or…
Publisher's Note: The Origin of the Robin is a Chippewa story. Jane Johnston Schoolcraft said that all the Chippewa of her…
An intrepid, independent soul, Mollie Dorsey was a homesteader in her teens, a gold rusher in her twenties, worked as…
“Learn to do common things uncommonly well; we must always keep in mind that anything that helps fill the dinner…
Have you ever wondered why, when so much of the homesteading lifestyle deals with the practices and philosophies of the…
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…