The Homesteaders

Who were the 19th century immigrants that tamed the Midwest with honor, risking their lives in places where others dared not go?

Famine and political unrest in 1860 Germany pushed the Gutthard family across the Atlantic Ocean and into New York, then to Baltimore and the Civil War and finally to Iowa. The Homesteaders is the Gutthards' saga. The story of their arduous journey and hard-won success unfolds through a cast of remarkably inspirational characters, from the women who sowed their sou...