Thursday, February 7, 2013

Homesteaders



Today’s poem is an effort to capture the adventurous spirit of the brave pioneers that moved the United States frontier westward in the mid-eighteen hundreds. It is difficult for modern day mankind to comprehend the hardship and suffering these courageous people endured. They had a dream! With determination and the “gravel in their gut”, they became the original settlers of what is now known in America as the “Southwest.”