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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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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.…
Health and Diet

Medical Folkways in America – Part Two: What’s in Your Bottle?

By Barbara Bamberger-Scott
In Medical Folkways in America – Part One: Maggots, Hairballs, and Eels, we looked at how things used to be, way back, when people lived on…
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…

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