Carving out a homestead is a fantasy of many a young boy. Even now, when Saturday morning programming does not include anything like Davy Crockett…
I walked off the plane in March expecting to get smacked in the face with heat and dust. “115 degrees,” they told me, “and the…
I always felt different than my sisters. We were all born in a big city, yet I did not embrace city life as they did. …
I have learned to accept the gentle smiles and assumptions of others when the subject of chickens is mentioned. It is always assumed that there…
“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…
"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…
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…
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…
I'd like to introduce you to an extraordinary life, that of the pleasant-looking young woman in the portrait above. On the one hand, I could…
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…
March is Women’s History Month, and it seemed fitting to me that a homesteading woman should be celebrated. The woman I chose was arguably at…
Women bootleggers put men to shame in the days of Prohibition. Women bootleggers (moonshine smugglers) were not unheard of; in fact, there may have been…
