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In modern society, we walk or drive down the street to find all kinds of food, many of them unrecognizable to our pioneer ancestors. (Thai noodles?) For the hardy pioneers, however, a few animals could mean the difference between starvation ...

The march of progress and the changing demands of an increasingly industrialized world without frontiers has changed the tools we use, but that does not mean all have lost their utility. For the survivalist, homesteader or simply those interested in the ...

For the pioneers, building a log cabin was not just a cool project that you took on for the fun of it. You had to know how to build your own home because there was no one else to build ...

  To read the first story in this series, click here. The modern homestead is heavily dependent on electricity and gasoline – for everything from lawnmowers to tractors to chainsaws to electric drills. But during a power outage, particularly a ...

Food has long been a focus of society. While our modern way of life includes regular trips to the grocery store, where there is more variety than we know what to do with, our ancestors didn’t have it quite that ...

History is amazing — not the dull, dry history you may have experienced in school, but the history of how people lived their day-to-day lives. We are so accustomed to our modern conveniences that we often have no idea how ...

The pioneers’ recipes were not ones that came from being able to shop at a large grocery store, where you can buy virtually anything. Their recipes – or “receipts” as they were called back then — were born out of ...