Letters of a Woman Homesteader (Dover Books on Americana)
As a young widow with a small child, Elinore Pruitt left Denver in 1909 and set out for Wyoming, where she hoped to buy a...
Series: Best Personal Memoir Books
Farm Flop: A City Dweller’s Guide to Failing on a Farm in Two Years Or Less
Peek inside the journal of a young suburban family who made the leap to a hobby farm, only to find themselves returning to the city...
My Life In The Wilderness: An Alaskan’s Story
Robert Hilliker was born in the southern Lower Peninsula of Michigan, in the late 1920's, just before the Great Depression of 1929 and the 1930's....
Go North, Young Man: Modern Homesteading in Alaska
Go North, Young Man, first published in 1957, is Gordon Stoddard's account of his first four years as a homesteader on Alaska's Kenai peninsula in...
Woodswoman: Living Alone in the Adirondack Wilderness
Ecologist Anne LaBastille created the life that many people dream about. When she and her husband divorced, she needed a place to live. Through luck...
Lessons Learned From Living in the Country
For anyone who has just moved to the country, or for those just thinking about making a move to the country, the material and pictures...
The Good Life: Helen and Scott Nearing’s Sixty Years of Self-Sufficient Living
This one volume edition of Living the Good Life and Continuing the Good Life brings these classics on rural homesteading together. This couple abandoned the...
Homesteading: A Montana Family Album
“His memories flow as naturally as his writing. . . . The reader is transported back to the day when a six-year-old stepped from the...
Arctic Homestead: The True Story of One Family’s Survival and Courage in the Alaskan Wilds
In 1973, Norma Cobb, her husband Lester, and the their five children, the oldest of whom was nine-years-old and the youngest, twins, barely one, pulled...
Bachelor Bess: The Homesteading Letters of Elizabeth Corey, 1909-1919 (American Land & Life)
In July 1909 twenty-one-year-old Elizabeth Corey left her Iowa farm to stake her claim to a South Dakota homestead. Over the next ten years, as...
The Personal History of Rachel DuPree: A Novel
Soon to be a Major Motion Picture Starring Emmy Award Winner and Oscar Nominee Viola Davis; "An eye-opening look at the little-explored area of a black frontier...
Almost Pioneers: One Couple’s Homesteading Adventure In The West
In the fall of 1913, Laura and Earle Smith, a young Iowa couple, made the gutsy—some might say foolhardy—decision to homestead in Wyoming. There, they...
Alaska’s Homesteders: By Martha Markey
Join Bob and me on our two trips to Alaska from Michigan. How two nine-inch frying pans got us up the hill near Scotty Creek...
Twenty Miles From A Match: Homesteading In Western Nevada (Bristlecone Paperback)
Originally published in 1978, this is the autobiography of an indomitable woman and her family's 20 years of adventures and misadventures in a desert wilderness....
BUCKSHOT PIE: A Family’s Struggle Through Homesteading, The Great Depression, and WW II
Buckshot pie is a metaphor for pioneer spirit, tough times, and the bitter-sweet struggle to survive and live off the land. Pearl’s wild elderberry pie...
COFFEE-DRUNK or BLIND: An Alaskan Homesteading Adventure
An incredible true tale of the journey of one family's travel and destiny of homesteading the Alaska wilderness in the mid-twentieth century.Coffee Drunk or Blind An...
Winds of Skilak: A Tale of True Grit, True Love and Survival in the Alaskan Wilderness
FIRST PLACE - JOURNEY AWARDS for Narrative Non-Fiction Chanticleer Book Reviews 2015 WINNER - NEXT GENERATION INDIE BOOK AWARD memoir 2014 HONORABLE MENTION - FOREWORD...
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