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The life of a pioneer woman was difficult, sometimes brutal, accompanied by deprivation, tragedy and early death.
Her home, at least in the initial stage, was a log cabin where an open fireplace served as the home heating source and also the cooking venue.
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If she was fortunate the cabin had wooden plank floors or flat stones as opposed to dirt. Were there to be household luxuries they would be in the form of a glass window, perhaps two of them.