Western classics, both books and on screens, portray a vision of frontier life that presents a certain mystique, a cliched world filled with cowboys, horses and women in long gingham dresses. But what was it really like for those settlers?
You can get a glimpse into that life with a new HBO Max show called “Back to the Frontier.” It places three American families in a remote location to “reimagine their lives as 1880s homesteaders, challenged to forgo the comforts of the present day for a more analog life on the frontier,” according to the network.
During their time on their latter day homesteads near the Canadian Rocky Mountains, the families tend to their livestock and gardens, make and sell homemade goods and keep up with home repairs and never-ending chores…