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land in the American West was once advertised as free for the taking
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Co
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under the Homestead Act nearly two million families came to settle
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virgin territory the front E
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their struggle to survive still haunts the landscape
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home
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even today the quest for the American dream
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echoes loudly now modern families are coming to test themselves
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can they endure the hardships of the pioneers
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over 5,000 families applied to travel back in time to the old ones
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three families were chosen
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yard all point
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i think is it your first here yes
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Gordon Clune a business executives from Los Angeles
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his wife Adrienne their three children on your
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Justin and Connor and their niece tracing
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have agreed to trade the luxury of their modern day life
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for a one-room cabin on the front desk hearts
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his Monica marvels you know what these are
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what do you think yes
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no to you harrowing lot of people then ask me
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oh what the heck are you doing gordon Liddy what you want to do this for
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I guess they look at me as being a
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you know someone that's fairly well set you know a person that has a
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in on a good standard of living good career
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and up lots of opportunities and challenges in my life
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and I view prices
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I love history america's a great country
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he comes from the strong people
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and I i believe that we can learn so much
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and personally I can grow so much by going back and understanding what r
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ancestors have done in his 21st century life in California Gordon is president
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of a large manufacturing company
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overseeing millions of dollars and hundreds compliance
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to go to for it frontier
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Adrienne an Irish immigrant to this country
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is a full-time mother and homemade it is a huge change
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I mean were coming from the 21st century
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Southern California were you know it's you're pretty spoiled
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you've got pretty much everything you want I'm use to
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getting a house you know going out a nice restaurants
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have used to traveling and I'm used to having nice clothes about to shop
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we're gonna do something here with the family and I can can
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you know could work together I guess I've been a a little bit workaholic
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adult traveling and I I spent a lot of time I am
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you know taking care business and I'm not spending as much time sometimes with
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my family
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and there at that critically each where if I think it's too late a very common
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there was no typical homestead
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they came from diverse backgrounds
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overcrowded towns in the east impoverished farms
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and some embarked from your so each have our families are being given a profile
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weaving their lives with those a actual nineteenth-century settlers
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son of an Irish him again who made his pile and the California Gold Rush
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court including at lives the American dream keep now
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over speculation and a dip in the Los Angeles economy threatens the family
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security
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with farming roots on both sides of the family have decided to see can you start
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in the Rocky Mountains his head inside
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yeah
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from Tennessee comes Karen gland
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her second husband Mark and her two children
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Aaron and Logan patton embroidery
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him quarter everybody back home is gonna laugh because
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every woman I work with importers I'm always laughing and making fun of them
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my yes poker
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let's have a party which is with my upper what appealed to me
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about this project is that I think come from it's my nature
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good
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come out but I'm not afraid
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anything suffered when I asked hardcore
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feisty here nice never wanted to accept defeat
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that's a lot of who I am
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in their modern-day knife
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karen is a school nurse and Mark a teacher at a junior college
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you and it's my skin yeah how TV dinners mark
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1.5 from front your house I I put that we were
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all-american family and I like to think that we are that we represented
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the majority of people in america I think I I'm trying to achieve with this
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project a sense have really Who I am
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I think people don't have a chance to stop as
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think and 3he value lay what they're going through and
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and who they are and where they're at my family so dangerous
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so when I presented to them me I could say we're taking a trip to the man
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and Italian been an unable to form farmland in Tennessee are marks wages as
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a teacher
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the grand family has decided to relocate Montana territory
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after reading a free man being available under the Homestead Act
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the newspaper article talk have a home seekers paradise
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and the newly available district's in the Boulder Valley
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mmm
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you a great preacher
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teacher Nate Berkus has come from Boston with his father Rudy
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a retired corrections officer like Christmas
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hey the one with the big group
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3 the work probably by I think we're our
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I like most about this war experiences working
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together with you with people you care about
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I think there's a a part iv: me that
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I'm years really excited just about
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that kinda survival mentality if for what the frontier folks would have
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experience is coming out checkers
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nice pretty slick
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about right support if for me to be there for named because
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Nate might Sun and
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whatever I can do to
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to nurture to train
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to educate to support give the role of parent i doing
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many history books ignore the presents an african-american pioneers
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in fact by 1880 almost half a million black americans were living in the West
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i think is i've come closer to
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the project it brings back memories above
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my own youth pioneer house was
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group for we grew up doing so
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it would be a probably a tremendous closing a circle going back and
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sing it again Rudy will only stay for the first two months
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to help Nate settle his land on July 4th
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Nate's fiance's social worker Kristen will arrive for homestead way
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we already had plans to get married in actually had a date set before we heard
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about frontier house but I lifestyle in
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in our desire to move west and matched up perfectly with the project in the
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nineteenth century
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interracial marriages were generally frowned upon
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by moving to the frontier people hope to escape the prejudices of the day
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I know it was very challenging in laws that forbid manages and in the south
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and it was definitely challenging arm in any area
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just just as a the difference in the discrimination
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young teachers Nate Berkus increased mccloud have been planning their future
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life
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outside of Boston for some while after careful savings
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they have managed to budget for a new start out on the frontier
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out west they hope to escape the financial and social pressures they
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anticipate
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may surround their forthcoming marriage
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the time our families are about to revisit this 1883
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the year the Northern Rail road's link east and west
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bringing many no sabes the place
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Montana territory
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the most homestead area in on-demand
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here in the old mining town in Virginia City
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the first task is to stake a claim under the Homestead Act passed during the
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Civil War
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160 acres were available for a nominal filing fee
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only men and single women that apply
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the family member who completed the front your house application will sign
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but in 1883 Karen plan would not have been able to find
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having lost most of her legal rights upon marriage
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life on the frontier was harsh sixty percent of the homesteaders
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didn't survive the five years required to prove up their land
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and secure ownership are chapped
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can modern-day families last five months
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and prepare for a montana winter under the same conditions
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in your home area our training is being overseen by a small group but
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experts who specialize in skills at the time
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the way this training stuff work yes that man will be doing the rules
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outdoors we women will be working within the home I think the main point
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to teach them is just basics
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cleanliness how do you wash dishes keeping that fire going on the stove see
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have hot water to wash your hands and your dishes
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your survival the hands-on certain things and and you proficiency with
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tools is gonna be
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one of those things I don't think they know working
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got themselves into is gonna be a surprise
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to on when they find out probably about the second or third week
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I'll their life on site here that it's not a
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camping trip you don't get to go home and take a hot shower at the end of it
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they have four months or more
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that they have to live this get over get down
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that number one ago control your her
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any time you're around animal the unexpected is going to happen
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and you can tell 'em a thousand different things
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that to be aware but the one thousand and one
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thing that you forgot tell 'em will be the thing that gets
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your first task is good at the build your home
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basal celled
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via a left-wing an axle of physical labor
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that's better
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that feeling it shot on my right hand but I didn't it just because an easy get
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so much
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go company thing
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get out job and back way you're going to be able to know whether you're still
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this warm inner
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is by opening happen putting your hand it
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I am highly impressed with my wood stove
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brand satisfy I was so much fun begin sit too well with me at first we got the
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schedule on it's like selling
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kicking making bread sanitary
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have gray
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every morning for the school this is what I smiled like
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on a nineteenth-century homestead
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animals were critical part of daily life livestock expert rawhide Johnson
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has given each family a milk cow and calf
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forces and a dogged turn final
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right livestock for the 1883 situation that we've created here's been kinda
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a little tougher than I thought it was going to be the really incredible tough
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what was a milk house know by mail girls and more
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and specially hand Nelson and the in closed very sparse didn't want to
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relinquishing the couch specially period counselors are not very many am
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and have one lady here in montana told me that I could have
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her daughter and I could have her husband but I can have a Malka
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from this point on the families will have to feed and care for their new
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animals
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9410 one of the dogs
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has recently given birth to four puppies this is the last month had decided
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because everyone I said I wouldn't say spending this envelope in
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these dogs are going to be a major tool
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and survival as they grow up
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they were here early warning device if there was dear
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raccoons in the garden some may come in to visit your a bear
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common all those kinds of things they can stay awake when your sleep
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and so you raise 'em to be that
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childhood and it early on the frontier
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because there was so much work to do
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so our children are about to experience a big change from their 21st century
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nice
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I think there are going to be lots of things
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that would be hard to do for wood like chopping firewood
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and making things said it would I never release of
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I can't keep children 18 he's but really have to work like well
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the st. like well the Afghan for can t make
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ominous ask child's I'm gonna miss friends parties
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I miss something in the summer I think eminem is sound
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probably showers I am
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I can't go a day without taking a shower I think it's really guess it's a really
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good feeling
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I think I'm having a hard time with it our public for about a couple of times
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I'm going to Manaus
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my been at my house my trampoline
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mind to know my Nintendo 64
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my Super Nintendo I think I'm
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Press twice a comment this was ready to go
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the families have agreed to a set of rules most important way to live as
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closely as they can to the experience at home stan is in the 1880s
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takes care a modern-day camcorder
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will be allowed to help them document their thoughts and feelings
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24 hours a day definitely some changes going on in
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my body some soreness in my my back and shoulders and
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from swinging the axe I'm still in training
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I'm not working that hard I'm so tired
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I'll was I wanted to cry almost any minute this sleepy
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interesting for happy silly
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leave the past behind for take on a new role
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think today with talk the average life expectancy in 1880
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was just forty today it 77 you
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our families are being provided with medicines at the ear
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however in an emergency they can see a doctor
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what they can't have are popular remedies that the day
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that contained opium and morphine which nom
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rather than cue a bottle of whiskey an essential in every home medicine
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will be there only playing now
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Effect two doses how do you feel
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great some other ways the time will require a radical readjusting
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the other saying that you're going to have to learn the lack of toilet paper
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they used water in tin cans spenders perhaps
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or bags to wash themselves okay like
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the easy things they hear their clothes and things but did they ever do anything
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about makeup
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makeup was absolutely not used
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by people who were out any
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moral standing at all other than
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women in theater perhaps
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or your barroom floozy
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we don't think we look good without makeup we were kinda clean record
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feeling angry faces he have a big lake
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and I we thank you for your hookup we want clean face
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face Kroger Co
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yeah where my talents
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says that where I wear lipstick it's not a
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it's not a priority not pregnant we haven't
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with ago well it's a big priority yeah I'm
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I'm really in trouble here week a topic rarely discussed in the eighteen
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eighties
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was menstruation tampons were not invented until the nineteen thirties
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so suk ain't needs to reeducate the win
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we did some research and there were sanitary belts
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on they were expensive
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and you may or may not have had them but we thought it was only appropriate that
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we provide
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for you care in which fine by
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me because we knew you'd be willing
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yeah this just all you have to do
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few
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this way old
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I got no you go to college in California
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diner your body if you became him
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some crucial personal decisions have been left where participants
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such as contraception the subject was taboo
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the Comstock active 1873
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labeled the topic obscene and threatened a five thousand dollar fine
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or 10 years hard labor for sending information or contraceptive devices
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through the main
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as a result people in remote areas resorted to homemade alternatives
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including the pig intestine condom you know so much for this project I think is
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striving for historical accuracy
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I'm and authenticity and in some cases those
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items have to be replicated and because this modern-day equivalent I we
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the curve is is a is the car you know I think this is the word
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wanna the he issues in the class between
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now and and I mean this is probably the Warren
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I'm takin Mercantile that
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to make me take them to you just in case you have to take the battery out to
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second
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I'm he either night can't have another baby because I took care of things along
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the way sign years ago yes she
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you know after three kids that was enough national are you
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join in the discussion if you aren't clear yes right so there's always a
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sense
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you consider you no
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we wouldn't have to worry about yeah also
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you know what that that would work in our family not even
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and issue to discuss yeah you want to solve your own
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Obama I think it should be a personals decision
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it's great for a second year and has the session about
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epic stuff we start trying to comply with my math it's gonna be
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you know I don't think that's fair since he doesn't have an issue and I do
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so that's what I say it's really know your business 0
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and 0
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this is very interesting watching what's happening here
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it's kinda case of familiarity
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breeds contempt were probably will too
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close for am healthy conditions really
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I'm just think lost it my heart I miss China keeper
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this guys everything's ok
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I'm happen I'm functioning I'm learning all this stuff
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any learn so that we don't starve to death frontier
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working together with someone far with people for a long period of time
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sometimes I think it
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there's a natural ability to be a a little bit irritated
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the gun was one of the most value tools at the homestead
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crucial for self defense and providing food
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in Montana territory the first hunting restrictions were introduced in 1872
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in an effort to protect the declining animal population
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today's laws are strictly enforced
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so hunting for game won't be an option which has disappointed
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court ok I understand the practicality of it but it is a very big
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disappointment I was a I was anticipating the opportunity be able to
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run
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to hunt and even if you don't hunt because you're too busy doing everything
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else
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you know now back in the mind you can and you could you know i mean
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he just but without having to go to work a major out bureaucracy
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a gun could be important though for protecting livestock from predators
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such as coyotes you got it you here so I participants are being trained with
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shotguns
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be the Buckshot world man wounded man
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but not everyone is convinced that
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any can is a good idea yeah I was in law enforcement with
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juvenile delinquents and in an institution
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and their number of cases in a number of times that
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kids have come into the institution having
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killed somebody or Ben Shahn arm
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and so I don't I don't see weapons guns or rifles or whatever answer
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as a necessary evil our choice of a russian-made 12-gauge shotgun
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designed in the style of an American weapon at the era
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has further and nite Gordon who brought a vintage down for his son look
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con this gun was made 1886
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look at the engraving pictures a rabbits and squirrels
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this is a kids gone in kids in the West had guns
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and so did adults but we we got is a gun
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but you better not to a close up on because it's embarrassing
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some people get really upset
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the bad it's been met with the and you know i i felt I felt that form in a
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sense for also thank you this much to do
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not thing you now if this is the only reason you came out here
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was cut with the kids the beer misdirected are you putting too much
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emphasis on this one issue
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I just can't believe we're in in america you know
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gonna have something like that
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cordoned brings up one more issue
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about farms I think I'm just gonna shoot him
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I feel very very om
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disappointed in how little this part if the West is going to be a
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emphasizes program you know
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General Custer look-alike give me a break
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ok
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with or without guns life-and-death
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go hand in hand on the frontier ok
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today people shop at supermarkets
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distanced from the source of their food pioneers had to tackle their basic needs
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head on up in a few minutes we will be killing these birds
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their several different ways of doing it are you can bring their necks
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you can chop their heads off with that had jed
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and I'm curious how how to any of you feel about that
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I think you'll be find a lot him
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fun back said from you have to be the one
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killing in deciding okay we're gonna kill that chicken today
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for that care its it was a little bit oven
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and ethical issue field officers in a
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unethical it's the food chain and its lower
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we need you know chicken sandwiches are chicken nuggets are
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whatever in and to know that you know where
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having to kill the check into to get that mean
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is something that I feel like it's important for everybody to be
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in contact with in connection with the purposive growing them
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the so they can go on our table so the relationship to the chechans
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or two any other animals are going to be different up
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ok former still moving
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let go get all over you suffering
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know it
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I sold for their
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for burying their heads because I feel bad specific
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yeah
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hard to believe that these birds we're sitting in a cage here
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just less than an hour ago
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now looking it's not so bad immediately see the process from start to finish
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you know that's kinda beautiful you can have more of an appreciation for the
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food you eat and not be so wasteful
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I still feel guilty the families are being
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outfitted with the basics the tools and household goods that settlers had the
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1880s
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a supply have locally available food has also been provided to get them starting
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the phone list that I put together are
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came basically from a storekeepers
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Jr Journal in the general area from where they're going to be
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and what I did was I went through and categorized
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everything that went through that store in about a six month period
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I just found out that this is actually supposed to be enough to keep us going
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for five weeks
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and am I'm a little concerned
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that maybe we've underestimated clase s
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it is going to be a big challenge for to
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to look at a storehouse of food and say okay this has got to last me for six
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weeks
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them
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Mike 10 days in
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and the Glens have a problem their milk cow
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crystal is said her productions been so low that the caps also going hungry
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mom she is their responsibility
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and they are worried about the possible consequences on the frontier
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they will depend on crystal for milk batter
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and cheese program at the Q crystal
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know sweetie but we may have to cure cancer no
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because the calf competes for milken can we keep in
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until its cuteness goes away think
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to sister families haven't left the modern-day
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event is called to look at the problem the forts Tomic
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is displaced to the left side so why placing your honor back
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roellinger to and fro we're hopeful that we can really that entrapment allow the
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album a sum to return to its
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proper position on the right side
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I'm more than a little concern I'm worried about the animal when I'm also
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worried about
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what do we do what would you have done your milk else
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sick she's done then offer feed hasn't produced any milk
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arm she's laid down you're right
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there milk is going to be precise water and probably fire one of the most
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essential things that we're gonna have
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cook and drink and his arm
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I mean this is is for sale drink machines
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this is the only drink machine that we're actually gonna have out in the
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wilderness he said Carmel Calif your most home centers had little money
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and we're attracted by the promise of free land %uh
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our families historical profiles include a small amount of savings
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which they will be able to spend at a recreated general store
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their money will also have to cover the costs to their new homes
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say love your house in california has enabled you to employ local builder to
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assist you
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in the construction if your home in the Boulder Valley to keep costs down you
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have elected to work with the builders
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therefore your home will be in the early stages a construction when you arrive
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while at 6i your financial background you are
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Pennyworth for you rebuilding
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your own cabin perfect now under freedom and more schools
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land agent in montana has secured the site complete
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with an existing cabin yeah
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thank you thank you yeah sick
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very acres is the place to be
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by evan is alive for me
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lansford now so far and why
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K have just given that country said
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as the intense training period comes to an end
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the families begin their physical transformation to nineteenth century
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pioneers
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on the agenda for today haircuts
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a clean shave and finally
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dressing in a period clothing
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each family will then be photographed
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to commemorate their journey Westwood for
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anyone whoever thinks that had a bad bad hair day
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you gotta see this said
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ok do that custer
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we put these reich frozen last night will look at them tick
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from this today and this is like the worst
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and dying here's like bad enough no I wear any makeup today
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but now I gotta look like Shirley Temple Israel use it over here
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from here %uh
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the clothing has been handmade in research for period accuracy
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they will each be given work clothes and dress clothes to suit their new life
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for the photographs they were dressing what was commonly know
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as their Sunday best
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and
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understands bitches right under your dress
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there in there somewhere Scott I'm
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the women's clothing has nine lanes from tightly laced corsets
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to chemises and bustle right
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very getting undressed was such a drama
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the ladies 100 rose had an open crotch to make bathroom visits
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a little easier
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fully dressed each woman has gained an extra
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12 pounds you swear on a stack of Bibles you don't have mascara
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for a scare perhaps thats makeup can make
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yeah ukulele suspenders they're meant to keep your pants her hit her
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why is he so high my fair
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it's like getting ready for a wedding families
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looking pretty sharp
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now I wimpy home of my work is kinda soon
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really have to slalom put on your hand with dinner
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I am
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like them right here
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around bpm you know I'll her
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holy
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of
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by race
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for we gather here
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7 yeah
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here just let me wear makeup you know it twice as good
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home
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everyone look at the top of the camera
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home
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ok the
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of
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for not be allowed to wear makeup today it was really a shocker and expect that
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I'm expecting not to wear on the frontier for today
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the day we're going to get our outfits and getting them
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power photos taken really thought I have a chance to look good
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I was so happy about what look right as I look like crap I'm sorry
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I did not enjoy it that's right all day
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not to cry the thing is it's amazing
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is how long how really is 21st century Obama
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isn't preoccupied with her covering up her body
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she is very preoccupied putting on
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the makeup and putting on a mask to hide behind
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cover face and when she hi
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she hiding getting older Shia
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Heidi wrinkles she hiding
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what I don't know what's there to say
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you know what's the big deal spot Mike I'm gonna
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down every day your me know my friends for lunch
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gonna have to look at KL
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0
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the training is complete and now the adventure can beat him
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today's the day the families will journey into the
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last but kind of
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something she's never change has been comparing the major difference between
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what I'm wearing
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what I he's very wet wearing yeah
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certain things like the notary have
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Cup use bathroom
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just those little things in life one just appreciates them
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missus we have a really easy with getting a tener two seconds that is I
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so you just going to let Canton rear for a great
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my custom finds golf
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from this guess what I heard when on your student
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when he ran down he's trying to sneak in our makeup they're not there
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hair dryer and everything that's what makes for the big scandals
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primary life already haha home i'm for the whisper
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but I heard here which
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how crazy is that it's the females
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I think better are China slepian
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kind as to make up for some shampoo get some things
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past slide it under the radar okay I've heard all this to do about makeup
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when the real thing I'm gonna try to smuggle is
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this that's right your basic cheap
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rough on the butt industrial strength toilet paper
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but oh my god this is gonna be the most valued item I think and feel
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listen to it for us stop even wrapping is gonna be very what we have out there
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from whose computer compared to leave in
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the
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in the 1880s homesteaders with travel weeks
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sometimes months to reach their land
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are pioneers are about to embark on a wagon train journey that would take just
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two games
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before they leave families must sort through a mountain
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baloney parts hands
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tools and food
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it will be six weeks before they can restart so like the settlers before them
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they must make hard choices about what to bring and what to leave behind
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the tripod you know whatever
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nigga long-term storage Thanksgiving considered I don't know if there is a
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battle axe people's
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do now most homesteaders traveled in farm wagons
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known as prairie schooner news which were actually quite small
38:57
for football but will the system for
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it wouldn't even fit the books in our house with wagons filled beyond capacity
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the trail West was often littered with items which were cast of
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along the way much of the wire nothing you soon to start with this stuff on top
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first and then save room for the two trance we're loading up
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the bag I hear them same I wish I had my Land Rover
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is so much easier what I'm trying to do find away
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store my exit they will get broken on the trip already broken to prepare for
39:35
the trip
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so it's kinda like that fifth-grade science experiment we have to
39:41
happen X that you drop off a building and not let it get broken
39:44
can lead to more amps no I miss you I am
39:48
as the families continue to pack
39:53
rawhide Gibbs Karen and Mark some bad news
39:56
your milk us not them burger Purcell's
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so we're gonna for our the wagon train and taker
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about the stuff I don't know what's wrong maybe her stomach rolled back over
40:07
again
40:07
but she didn't have much meaning of this morn she looks an awful lot that
40:11
included last time she was sick
40:13
and it may just be the stress level once she gets
40:17
out on green grass and settle down stuff you may 25
40:20
I think sirica I don't know a whole lot that can also do a little bit about
40:25
September from sick quick again and
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I don't think he's gonna make it I'm
40:32
from feel better with people dying maybe
40:35
fit after cell
40:39
which is now you can go to Cal ok here we need to get a calendar now cuz I got
40:42
a family of four
40:43
and we're big milk drinkers and there's I mean that's going to be our
40:47
our beverage of choice that water
40:59
it's tremendous cool
41:00
purposes I'm good I got a headache make
41:07
make IQ where this thing anymore
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where
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have no work today XI spot for the truck
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then we can put all the heavy cast iron skillets in the middle here
41:22
like I'd say forget
41:25
the wagons are packed and it's time to make a total break with the modern-day
41:31
this is the moment of truth
41:35
the families are given one last chance to put non period items
41:38
in an honesty box yes I
41:44
from freezers
41:48
lipstick mostar
41:52
by shadow was only three days ago can you use the right why was it sad
41:57
yeah I just hope I don't think I want faxes I'm
42:00
now it's just get to the homestead a skit broken
42:04
up that's what we need to do we need a break things clans apart
42:08
discussed our lives without the neighbors been right here in your face
42:12
24
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good ok
42:19
the team horses have been hits to the wagons and this is an opportunity to get
42:23
everyone together for a group founder
42:28
the departure of the wagon train is the moment there are high
42:31
is feared most controlling powerful teams of horses
42:35
is too dangerous for our families to be allowed to take charms
42:39
so rawhide has hired professional prime when you're doing a wagon trainer
42:45
anything with the animals um there there's always a risk of having
42:49
something go wrong
42:50
teams are more vulnerable with teams
42:54
then with saddle horses because more people can get hurt quicker
42:58
if somebody falls off a horse or something one person has got hurt
43:02
team horses run away everybody in the wagon can get seriously hurt
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and then everybody that gets run over can get her and the runaway wagon if you
43:12
happen to be on it is just like sittin on the bumper
43:14
carne run into some trees you're gonna get hurt
43:17
the teen star now but for C
43:21
nervously ok having waited while he watched as the photos were taken
43:25
has left them skins ok
43:30
sudden team speaks and the driver loses control
43:34
they leap out of line and head straight for Adrian
43:41
connery's thrown from the privacy adrienne
43:44
barely escapes
43:49
thankfully
43:50
no one is here forward got are you need something
43:56
then me if when researching the guy ike lost one hand the brain
44:01
got it back and then that's when on they'd gotten
44:04
I could just hear what was happening behind me I couldn't see
44:09
I saw them so come running I have to stress I could hear that thundering
44:14
who behind me and I on his running
44:17
I'm ready look at her eyes are
44:23
are shielded she's she's got blinders on 1883 style right we've been reading
44:28
books about how
44:29
accidents happen women get accidentally kicked in the head with no wonder
44:34
they can only see what's in front of their frickin eyes like this they could
44:36
walk right into harm's way without even knowing it
44:39
so if there's a disadvantage with fashion 1883 I can tell you right now
44:43
close one you know this I grew up around horses I know they're
44:48
really unpredictable get a lot of horses together just takes one
44:52
be a bit restless and get everyone going system a zing to this
44:57
the power those teams forces the year was the get go
45:01
so
45:04
where the Kia likely nobody's hurt it's fine
45:09
good morning when we left with the wagons from the store
45:13
we discussed it a little bit have setting there and taking a couple
45:18
part rates and I said well we when we hook up we really need to go the horses
45:23
are gonna be nervous and stuff
45:24
it got carried away and I was taking longer than I should we had one team is
45:29
getting really nervous and
45:30
probably the only time in my life I've ever saying iraq like that without
45:34
breaking a great deal
45:36
stuff those just america with nothing got broken nobody got hurt here we go
45:41
again there you go
45:46
as they head of the game only Rudy chooses to rhyme
45:50
the rest to the families will go on horseback
45:54
over walk the entire journey like many homesteaders before
46:01
ride biggest fear this whole game has been
46:05
when we start that moment to be flying stay comfortable these look
46:09
over to the side while the girls get on or so lol
46:14
called like you call up you know
46:18
ironsides to rate of seven card stud i mean he called it this is what he was
46:23
freed up from the beginning
46:24
the clues
46:28
were lucky
46:31
local history recalls an all-too-common tragedy
46:35
when a small child coming to this very area
46:38
fell from a wagon was crashed today under its wing
46:42
fresh graves
46:45
marked the way west
46:54
hours into their journey and our travelers are confronted with another
46:58
harsh lesson that the train the road is out
47:05
it is late May and the mountain snowmelt has burst in irrigation
47:10
washing the road away
47:15
gonna find an alternative route
47:20
couple morning
47:21
definitely humbling to
47:24
now that everything's unpredictable what do you think go away
47:29
when these things happen once and maybe fifty years it just happens to be
47:35
you get
47:37
and one little thing you ever run into typical wagon train store
47:41
yeah the families wait
47:44
and rest while the options are discussed has come a long ways round we have that
47:50
option are holding up
47:52
just like they used to do they hold up wait for the weather and
47:57
all nature to get some again go when the kid were right that deal right now
48:03
a decision is made
48:08
the families will take a long detour around the washed-out roads
48:12
leading the horses and dogs
48:16
the wagons cannot take this so rawhide must resort to a 21st century solution
48:23
the road is reopened and the wagons increments
48:26
the family's upper roof will take them longer
48:41
the plan is to meet up with their wagons before nightfall
48:52
they reunite and decide to call it a day
49:06
while the adults set up camp
49:09
the children tried to catch dinner
49:16
bono this is there
49:19
you
49:20
have
49:26
who owns my warm everything
49:30
act
49:36
just reminding of it's just the usual for me
49:39
returning empty-handed from fishing
49:44
Connor clue is attacked by the cleansed of
49:47
do %ah hawk
49:51
for few
50:04
fo
50:07
forget States that go
50:13
already fights for
50:17
I don't see where just being there for other I L
50:21
felt like it it doesn't it he said he wanted a brake disc and I think he
50:24
probably could
50:26
don't you or like Duke up forfeit their comps
50:29
fair Cox do
50:33
fighting dark quite a day have
50:37
Valley look like a wrecking I was thinking I'm
50:40
there was quite an introduction to the hazards of the frontier
50:43
was like credible just a little more real them
50:48
I had anticipated well more real than I really wanted to get
50:52
size whoa it was close
50:55
tell you it was very frightening but I think that brought home
50:59
realization that what we're doing has
51:02
elements danger it is a matter if you have a safety specialist on board and it
51:06
doesn't matter
51:06
everyone's been trained in first aid things can happen
51:10
I think there's a learning for all over us
51:13
in relationship to 1883 cose those things as a little emergencies in the
51:19
road out new forces and
51:20
in all I'm sure workers in 1883
51:25
the worst ever right good
51:30
time what a while %um
51:34
I what's my word without even having a party
51:37
I was attacked by a vicious dog feedback
51:41
by leaving I pits know of go