Product Review

Pioneer Quest: A Year In The Real West, is a nine Episode television series that follows two couples as they assume the lives of early settlers to the West. In June they will arrive by horse-drawn cart at an empty piece of prairie. Within the year, using only the resources and tools of the 1870s, they will build a house, raise livestock, hunt, fish and grow crops. No running water. No electricity. No toilet paper or other modern conveniences. They must feed themselves, build shelter and endure the heat and cold. They must work together, sharing the hard work, the stress of failure and the joy of success, to persevere and prosper. Will they make it? What will their greatest challenge be? Do they have what it takes to do what pioneers did over 100 years ago? Pioneer Quest will bring the struggle into your home. In Episode 1 the reality show's selection process, which whittles down the applicants to two couples, is chronicled. In Episode 2 the pioneers fight illness and fatigue while plowing the fields and caring for the livestock. In Episode 3 a mosquito infestation tests the pioneers; crops are planted; homes are built. In Episode 4 a mosquito infestation tests the pioneers; crops are planted; homes are built. In Episode 5 the crops are threatened by a frost. And the couples hunt, cut firewood and are tested by a snowstorm. In Episode 6 Frank takes up hunting and bags a deer, while Tim falls ill and is taken to the hospital. In Episode 7 the couples cope during the winter months by making bread, quilts and furniture. In Episode 8 In spring, the meats and vegetables are threatened when water seeps into the in ground freezers. In Episode 9 the season finally the Treadways and Logies return to the 21st century after a year as 1870s pioneers on the Manitoba prairie.