Describes the challenges that American settlers faced when they left the farms and towns in the East in their Conestoga wagons and headed West.

Follows three families as they recreate the lives of Western homesteaders.

An intimate view of frontier women--Anglo and Indian--and the communities they forged.

On America’s western frontier, myths of prosperity concealed the brutal conditions endured by women, slaves, orphans, and the poor. As poverty and unrest took

Topics: getting there, homes, food and clothing, tasks and chores, dangers and hardships, frontier schools, fun and amusements, justice, towns, heroes and heroi