Pioneer art

“If this country is ever demoralized, it will come from trying to live without work.” ~ Abraham Lincoln Besides the brilliant sense of accomplishment, healthy lifestyle of physical activity and the sweetness of $avings, there is something morally and spiritually strengthening when involving oneself in old fashioned labor. It is the blessed business that keeps you out of everyone else's business. "A life of full and constant employment is the only safe and happy one. If we suffer the mind and…

#OTD in 1843, the first major wagon train departed for the west coast on the Oregon Trail. Thousands of more pioneers followed in the upcoming decades. Learn more here!

Girl on Oregon Trail by Benjamin Wu

“I didn’t choose art as a career, it chose me” is the answer often given by Tom Browning whenever asked why he decided to become an artist. Browning began drawing horses, wildlife and Indians at age seven, and after five decades of painting and studying the work of Charlie Russell, James Reynolds and Haddon Sundblom,...Read More

Vienna Jaques: Woman of Faith

Prairie Fever was also known as “Prairie Madness.” It affected settlers emigrating to the Great Plains following the Homestead Act of 1862. It affected men but women were more prone to the affliction caused by isolation and the loneliness on the endless, windblown prairies.

From the vintage book "Pioneer Stories of the Second Advent Message" By Arthur Whitefield Spalding, Copyright1922 Southern Publishing Association, Nashville, Tennessee This drawing is on page 282.

On the American frontier, dinner might have been vinegar pie, bear meat, or nothing at all.

There were countless trails created from the wheels of the wagons. If the cart was too heavy to cross the water, household necessities were often left behind. Parents often died, leaving their children to fend for themselves. By the end of the era, there were at least ten people buried…