Season 1
9 episodes
48 min. per episode
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Four modern pioneers confront harsh realities of frontier life, testing their bonds and the limits of survival in the untamed West.
Episodes
This episode introduces viewers to hundreds of candidates who volunteered to spend an entire year living as 1870s settlers, and profiles both the intense selection process used to select the two couples and their move onto the Manitoba prairie.
The settlers struggle against illness, fatigue and self-doubt while plowing fields and caring for livestock.
The settlers endure an infestation of mosquitoes; isolation and close quarters cause emotional stress.
Tensions rise when producers have to show up!
The Pioneers start working on a new barn. Old man winter is coming.
Two couples assume the lives of early settlers to the West. Using only the resources and tools of the period, they will attempt to build homes, raise livestock, hunt and grow crops.