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Tag Archives: Pioneer
Birth Control in Two Pan: 1871
We’re looking at change. Every other week we give a sideways glance to the newfangled ideas cropping up in the 1870s. This week, we’re in Two Pan, and even though we hate change, we’ll grudgingly admit…some improvements are long overdue.. … Continue reading
Posted in Choices, Humor, Pioneer Friday in Two Pan
Tagged Birth Control 1870, Change, Humor, Lots of children, Pioneer, Rubbers, Saloon, Two Pan, vulcanized rubber
46 Comments
We Don’t Need No Book Learnin’
The town meeting to build a school was held in the newly constructed Grubbs Mercantile. Ignacius Grubb has sold mule shoes, single sips of wildfire hooch through glass straws, and tobacco out of barrels since the first gold claim in … Continue reading
Posted in Change, Humor, Pioneer Friday in Two Pan
Tagged 1870 chores, Book learnin', Change, Horse shoing, Humor, Mercantile, Pioneer, School, Sporting Palace, Two Pan
27 Comments
NOT the Salt of the Earth
Welcome to 1870 where Violet Spinrad finds something needs to change. Alice Hopkins showed up at my door. She was out of salt. Can you imagine? That’s like being out of air. We’re so poor the only thing on our … Continue reading
Posted in Humor, Pioneer Friday in Two Pan
Tagged candles, Change, Clothes pins, Humor, Oregon Trail, Pioneer, salt, Salt box
41 Comments
Needles, Dogs, and Secrets
In 1871, Women sew more than quilts for a change. “Can you stitch up the dog?” That’s what every woman wants to hear when she’s cooking dinner. The kids were poking each other with sticks and into this chaos, Henry … Continue reading
Posted in A Laugh, Humor, Pioneer Friday in Two Pan
Tagged Bears, dog, Humor, miner, needle, Oregon Trail, Pioneer, Ranch, Sewing
24 Comments
Hard Candy Christmas
I’m William Woolsey. Silky Sue, owner of the Salt Lick Saloon came to me with a proposition, I tried to be civil. I told her there were other men in town who’d be her freighter. But she didn’t want miners … Continue reading
Posted in Hope, Lights, Pioneer Friday in Two Pan
Tagged Christmas, Dolly Pardon, hard candy, Humor, Oregon Trail, Pioneer, rancher, Saloon, Silent Night, wagon
17 Comments
1870s: Christmas Gifts in the Wind
Changes make Christmas skip over Two Pan and Violet Spinrad. Violet Spinrad says: After a body experiences thirty Christmases, the thrill of the season crumbles into another day of work. A child is needed to inflate the holiday. The wee … Continue reading
Posted in Humor, Pioneer Friday in Two Pan
Tagged 1800s, Christmas, Christmas Eve, Humor, Milk, Mud oven, Oregon Trail, Pioneer, Settler
45 Comments
Threshing Manure
Fridays Brings Changes in Two Pan…. When one of the Woolsey children came banging on our door, Bricker was out seining for gold, as usual. The boy had been sent by his papa asking for Bricker’s help getting in his … Continue reading
Posted in Humor, Pioneer Friday in Two Pan, Satire
Tagged flour, grain, horse, manure, mill, Pioneer, Pioneer Friday, Settler, threshing, tobacco, Wheat
34 Comments
Happier Than a Woodpecker in a Lumber Yard
It’s Pioneer Friday, and some folks are SCOWLING at the latest change. Opal’s Palace for sporting women opened its brass-plated doors this Friday, December 1, 1870. Construction had begun months ago with granite quarried from Huber’s. However, masons recently stopped, … Continue reading
Posted in A Laugh, Humor, Pioneer Friday in Two Pan
Tagged Bordello, Homesteader, Lumber, Parlor, Pioneer, Saloon, Satire
31 Comments
Iron Woman and Duck Man
Another Pioneer Friday and Bricker should keep up with the Changes. That’s why he’s now squinting. It had to be a man who invented the iron. No woman would’ve said, let’s whack a cannon ball in half, throw it in … Continue reading
Posted in Humor, Pioneer Friday in Two Pan
Tagged Daily Chores, Humor, Iron, Ironing, Lavender Water, Oregon Trail, Pioneer, Settlers, Sewing, spit, Washing
32 Comments
Before Morning Breaks 