My First Life

In the 19th century, the life of homesteaders in the American West was not an easy one. FF Blachly's newly-discovered memoir from those years brings us an intimate view of his family's survival on the western slope of the Colorado Rockies, offering a remarkably detailed look at an historically important era of the American Frontier. In 1880, when this story begins, land recently stolen from the Ute Indians was being turned into ranches, farms, mines, and towns by white settlers who depended...