Almost Pioneers: One Couple's Homesteading Adventure In The West - Paperback

by John Fry (Author)

A really wonderful peek into the lives of a couple who tried the wide open west as homesteaders that reveals ineptitude as well as the usual pioneer bravado.

Author Biography

Laura Gibson Smith was an Iowa native who tried homesteading with her husband in Wyoming in the 1910s and later chronicled her experiences. John J. Fry is the Chair of the History Department at Trinity Christian College. He lives a block south of the city of Chicago in Blue Island, Illinois.