Pioneer life

Living in a tiny, rustic home on an undeveloped farmstead has opened my eyes. I'm beginning to understand the pioneer woman!

Tons of fun & simple activities for Pioneer Day including pioneer games, food ideas, books & movies to celebrate Pioneers.

There has been a theme running in our family lately. While I have been working for years to establish order, routine, and organization in our lives, I have continually failed. I just couldn’t seem to make it work. But lately, we (my husband and I) have been analyzing why that is. The fact that we […]

The 17 most essential pioneer skills you need to learn and teach. Pioneer skills, vintage skills, forgotten skills… there are many names given to these essential skills. The fact is that living…

A Woman's Perspective of Life on the Oregon Trail - True West Magazine

When my girls were younger their favorite time period in history to study was the time of the pioneers. They liked to imagine they lived in the times of Little House on the Prairie.

In order to survive their arduous journey and rugged way of life, pioneers needed a set of self-reliant skills if they wanted to survive.

Recently I received a letter from a grad student who was having trouble finding the answers to questions she had about how pioneer women coped with the problems women face today. Did they encounter yeast infections? If there was one water barrel on the wagon, it was surely for drinking, so what did they do to be clean during menses?

Over 175 years ago, pioneers migrated west to settle what would now become booming metropolis cities. Today we live in air-conditioned homes, buy our supermarket milk in gallon jugs, and order anything we could possibly dream of with the click of a button and have it magically appear two days later at our doorstep. We live in blessed times. But do you ever wonder if you could have made it as a pioneer? Actually, those hard-working men and women were doing so many things right. Here are eight…

Follow me The pioneers were the first people to settle in the frontiers of North America. The majority of pioneers came from Europe,