Lyons Regional Library

"Homesteading" is earthbound skills in a digital age, and authenticity in a mass-produced world. Meyer reinterprets yesterday's necessities for today's enthusiast, helping you put your lawn, windowsill, or spare closet to work as your own personal homestead in the city, and reap the rewards.

The Monhollon Homesteaders is a biography of the life of western pioneers Isaiah and Etta Monhollon, who participated in the Oklahoma Land Run, encountered Jesse and Frank James, and raised five children while surviving drought and the Dust Bowl Days. Inspired by her mother's journal, author Diane Thaxton Baublits spent nearly 15 years researching her family genealogy in preparation of writing this book. Mrs. Baublits was born and raised in Las Animas,...

This book consists of a collection of memories from the hardy pioneer families who settled at Swallows, Colorado in the Arkansas river Valley. To preserve the nature of the memories family contribution are printed as they were submitted without editing.

Sixteen Civil War widows travel from St. Louis, Missouri to Plum Grove, Nebraska, with dreams of owning land and finding love on the prairies.

The story of two "blood " brothers, Alan and Britt Johnson one a former plantation owner, the other his chilhood friend whom he freed from Slavery who, with their families, leave Carolina to settle in Texas in the 1860's in hopes of finding a new life.

City-dwellers across the country are finding creative new ways to live, and urban farmers are reclaiming heirloom agrarian practices as strategies for responsible living. Get to know real people who are changing their lives and the lives of their neighbors through the urban homesteading movement.

"Tony Darrow lost his job at Wagon Wheel Ranch when owner Mark McCarron learned of his past. The cowboy had done time for horse stealing. With Tony out of the way, it looked like Blaise Amory, the country's most respected citizen, was a sure bet to win the love of redheaded Margie, Mark McCarron's daughter. Then Tony played a dangerous hunch. He suspected that Amory was the leader of a vicious outlaw gang stealing land from the U.S. Government. But...

Provides instructions for numerous projects for the house, yard, and garden, including birdhouses, cold frames, plant stands and tubs, window boxes, smokehouses, fences, outdoor furniture, and greenhouses.