Pioneers

3 men plowing with a team of 14 cattle, 2 Indians in foreground, log cabin and 3 deer in background, wild geese flying overhead.

<p><span class="deck"><span class="typestyle">Legend says the frontier was “hell on women,” but the ladies claim they had the time of their lives</span> </span></p>

<p><span class="deck"> <span class="typestyle"> Between the ages of fifteen and twenty, young Peter Rindisbacher captured on canvas the lives of Indians and white pioneers on the Manitoba—Minnesota frontier</span> </span></p>

<p><span class="deck"> Pioneer farmers had neither wood nor brick to build with, but there sure was plenty of good earth</span> </p>

<p><span class="deck"> IT WAS LIKE THIS FOR OUR GREAT-GRANDMOTHERS</span> </p>

<p><span class="deck"> The tragic journey of the Donner Party</span> </p>

<p><span class="deck">From Poverty and Persecution to Prosperity and Power</span></p>

<p><span class="deck"> <span class="typestyle"> A Last Link with the Living Frontier</span> </span></p>

<p><span class="deck"> <span class="typestyle"> “Surveyor, mountain man, soldier, businessman, wanderer, captain of emigrants, farmer…he was himself the westward-moving frontier.”</span> </span></p>

<p><span class="deck"><span class="typestyle">The last homesteading community, a Depression-era experiment—and a selection of the rare color photographs that recorded it</span> </span></p>

<p><span class="deck"> <span class="typestyle"> The Story of Some Forgotten Four-Footed Pioneers</span> </span></p>

<p><span class="deck">For many children who accompanied their parents west across the continent in the 1840s and '50s, the journey was a supreme adventure.</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">A novelist joins his ancestor on a trip West and discovers in her daily travails an intimate view of a tremendous national migration.</span></p>

<p>The first caravans lumbered across 2000 miles of dangerous, inhospitable wilderness in 1843, the year of the Great Migration. To a surprising degree, it’s still possible to follow something very like their route.</p>

<p>A historian looks at the distinctive Midwestern identity of Wilder and her "Little House on the Prairie" books.</p>