Frontier House was economy and tractors and real food (politics?) was: debunking myth...

[Guest guest]

Good they did include the local Crow tribe giving them a deer and telling

how they'd been removed out of that same valley at gunpoint and not allowed

to hunt where they were moved to in 1883. The families had things they had

to do at certain times that went with the show, seasons and weather. Seemed

like they all cooked 3 meals a day. All those carbs weren't right for the CA

man and one son who lost too much weight. That couple also ran out of food

even though wife had gone to culinary school. Loved it in the end when CA

man was told they wouldn't have made it through winter, says making it here,

opens up his freezer in their new Malibu mansion and pulls out Malibu rabbit

the boys had got there with bows and arrows. They did eat that rattlesnake

in the garden and fished. Biggest disappointment and unfairness was they

rated their success only on readiness for winter not including the beginning

conditions. MA couple had no cabin, TN couple built cabin and CA partially

started. TN couple won and started with built cabin. The children were

wonderful in it with the maturity they showed. Definitely were lessons in

community there and some of the distasteful parts of human nature.

> Yeah, I loved that series but those folks did WAY too much work. They also

> didn't allow hunting ... your average pioneer would bag at least a

> few rabbits, I'd think.

>

> -- Heidi