Ann Posted November 5, 2007 Share Posted November 5, 2007 Do you think you would have made a good pioneer woman or man...moving west into unknown parts of the country? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sis Posted November 5, 2007 Share Posted November 5, 2007 Not unless they had microwaves on those covered wagons!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kasey Posted November 5, 2007 Share Posted November 5, 2007 I have often said to Fred that if I was a pioneeer woman..........my family would have perished right off the bat ! Kasey Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dchurchi Posted November 5, 2007 Share Posted November 5, 2007 And not watch college football I think not. I often thought I would be able to, and then the electricity will go off for about an hour. No pioneer woman here. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bunny Posted November 5, 2007 Share Posted November 5, 2007 actually, yes. I think I would have been fine. my only real trouble would be with having to skin the food, etc. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ann Posted November 5, 2007 Author Share Posted November 5, 2007 I think I would have done just fine being a pioneer woman. I would have loved riding in a covered wagon and cooking over an open fire. Not sure how I would how great I would have been washing clothes on a washboard but I think I could have handled it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J.C. Posted November 5, 2007 Share Posted November 5, 2007 I would have been fine, was explained a lot of it by my Mom's oldest brother that went west as a pîoneer and met his wife on the trip. He also went to California and Alaska before he came back to Canada. He was born in 1863 and died at 98 years old. Jackie Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JB Posted November 5, 2007 Share Posted November 5, 2007 I think I would have done fine...Always liked roughing it. Camping and building fires, and sleeping under the stars. Even if I wasn't good at being a pioneer I would have enjoyed it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RandyW Posted November 5, 2007 Share Posted November 5, 2007 I am aguy do ya think I know Directions?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nyka69 Posted November 5, 2007 Share Posted November 5, 2007 I'm with Randy. When I leave my STREET I feel like I'm in unknown parts of the country! No sense of direction at all. I'd probably be steering my covered wagon in circles for months and never know it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Muriel Posted November 5, 2007 Share Posted November 5, 2007 Hardly. I don't even bake things from scratch. Muriel Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lilyjohn Posted November 6, 2007 Share Posted November 6, 2007 It seems like all of my life I have been a modern day popneer. First at 17 I ended up 2,500 miles from my home in a place that was about as foreign to me as Mars would have been. Then after my divorce I traveled cross country alone back home to California and a month later moved on to Washington sight unseen to set up a home and make a life with Johnny. After 5 months he was gone and 5 months later I was on the move again down to Southern California and that was different too and I was on my own. From there up here to French Gulch where less than two weeks after arriving I was snowed in for 4 days with no heat or lights. Now I am retired living in Redding and for me that too is a new adventure. Heck my whole life has been an experience I could call pioneering Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Geri Posted November 6, 2007 Share Posted November 6, 2007 Like Lilly I'm a pioneer who has always had electricity and running water! We got married on Saturday and left for Montreal on Thursday, our first 3000 mile trip into the unkown - albeit in a first class cabin on a luxury liner! From there we moved another 3000 miles west to Calgary and then another 3000 miles east to Toronto. The next few moves were pretty tame, 2000 south to TX then 2000 north to VT and now 200 east to MA. Could I have done this in a covered wagon? I don't know, probably not.......it was hard enough at times with all the modern conveniences!! But....two of our moves were made with a travel trailer in tow - does that count? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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