Pioneer families

Pioneer-people of the old day,s...

Little did I know when I started reading the Little House on the Prairie series and Willa Cather’s prairie novels that I would find the topic of pioneer life, and especially the role of women…

Willie & Nellie Olsen and their father.

Scroll down to the first comment to view the stereo illusion medium sized (388 x 500) or view original size (actions menu, above) to view it large (990 x 1275) . The Wikimedia Commons website offers a multitude of historical images with no restrictions on use. This image, published by the Continent Stereoscopic Company, shows a pioneer and his family in Oregon. This publisher operated from New York between 1870 and 1890, selling some originals along with pirated and copied images. Copyright…

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

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?

1910 Primitive prairie log cabin, man with blacksmith tools and woman holding a pan.

Historical photograph of a 1800's era family on a Westward expedition.

Washington State Pioneer Family. Probably relations of mine- lol

I sometimes forget that my mom didn't grow up as a pioneer in late 1800s, but actually about 100 years later in the 1960s. All of her childhood stories always remind me more of an episode of Little House on the Prairie rather than the more suburban nostalgia we see on The Brady Bunch. Growing up on a farm, […]

A Swedish pioneer family in South Dakota ca 1900

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George and Maggie Masters children. Their oldest son George was born in the Ingalls home in De Smet during the Long Winter when a short stay was prolonged by the storms of that winter. Without money or means the Ingalls provided George and his pregnant wife then infant son with what little they had until the Winter was over.

Mormon Pioneer Family - 1869

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Fred Pearson and family, Johnson County, Kansas - 1 - Kansas Memory

As the Oregon, California, and Mormon Trails, and the Pony Express, crossed Nebraska, there were numerous confrontations between the Indians and settlers.