25 Brutal Truths About How Mountain Women Survived the Frontier

Thanks for watching. If this brought back a memory or taught you something Hollywood never would, subscribe and share it with someone who needs to hear the truth about the real American frontier. The real story of frontier women is harder than any western ever dared to show. From the Appalachian ridgelines to the Rockies, mountain women held the American frontier together while the men rode off and became legends. They delivered babies alone, tanned hides with bare hands, pulled their own teeth, defended homesteads with rifles, and buried their own children in frozen ground. This video counts down twenty five brutal, documented truths about what survival actually looked like for the women history forgot. Further Reading: Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, A Midwife's Tale: The Life of Martha Ballard, Based on Her Diary, 1785–1812 (1990) Lillian Schlissel, Women's Diaries of the Westward Journey (1982) John Mack Faragher, Daniel Boone: The Life and Legend of an American Pioneer (1992) Eliot Wigginton (ed.), The Foxfire Book series (1972 onward) James E. Seaver (ed.), A Narrative of the Life of Mrs. Mary Jemison (1824) John P. Hale, Trans-Allegheny Pioneers: Historical Sketches of the First White Settlements West of the Alleghenies (1886) Frederick Law Olmsted, A Journey in the Back Country (1860) WPA Federal Writers' Project, These Are Our Lives: Appalachian Oral Histories (1936–1940) John Alexander Williams, Appalachia: A History (2002) Elizabeth A. Perkins, Border Life: Experience and Memory in the Revolutionary Ohio Valley (1998) This channel is built to educate, inform, and widen your understanding of real American frontier history. Every script is written by a human. All visuals and storyboards are brainstormed and developed internally by our team. Our goal is to bring you valuable, well researched content that respects both the history and the audience.