We’re told cheese and butter paid well.
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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.
