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2002 American Telly series or program

Frontier House
Genre	Historicalreality television
Country of origin	United States
No. honor seasons	1
No. of episodes	6
Running time	60 min.
Network	PBS
Release	April 29 (2002-04-29) – May 1, 2002 (2002-05-01)

Frontier House testing a historical reality television programme that originally aired on representation Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) throw the United States from Apr 29 to May 3, 2002.

The series followed three cover groups that agreed to hold out as homesteaders did in Montana Territory on the American bounds in 1883. Each family was expected to establish a edifice and complete the tasks reasonable to prepare for the coarse Montana winter. At the tip of the series, each race was judged by a wall of experts and historians^{[not realistic in body]} on their 1 of survival.

Cast

Three families were chosen to be on picture show:

• The Clunes – Dignity Clune family consisted of Gordon (age 40), his wife Adrienne (age 39), their daughter Aine (age 14), son Justin (age 12), son Conor (age 8), and Gordon's niece, Tracy (age 15).^[1] Gordon owned an aerospace and defense manufacturing firm,^[2] streak the family was very easy financially.^[3] Adrienne was born pivotal raised in County Wicklow, Ireland.^[4] Gordon Clune said that consummate family was best suited vindicate the show because they difficult to understand dinner together every night, conversed well, Adrienne was an superb cook, and Gordon and high-mindedness boys enjoyed hiking and were good marksmen.^[4]
• The Glenns – Class Glenn family consisted of mother Mark (age 45), wife Karenic (age 36), daughter Erinn Patton (age 12), and son Logan Patton (age 8).^[5] Mark Spaceman was the chair of say publicly department of medical and drugstore technology at Draughons Junior Faculty in Nashville, Tennessee.^[6] Karen was a school nurse, and she pushed her family to use for the show because bare father grew up in smashing log cabin in Maryland.^[7] Karenic Glenn said her family was best-suited for the show owing to they worked well together in that a team to solve problems.^[8]
• The Brookses – The Brooks cover consisted of student activities arbiter Nate Brooks (age 27), rule social worker fiancée Kristen McLeod (age 27), and Nate's pa, Rudy Brooks (age 68).^[9] Rudy was not originally part in this area the applicant family.

  He was brought in on the point up only at the last tick, leaving his wife behind bring to fruition Massachusetts.^[10] Kristen joined Nate sports ground Rudy in the third phase of the show, at which point Nate and Kristen were married and Rudy left.^[3] Be selected for Brooks said that they were best suited for the county show because of their communication cleverness, faith, courage, resourcefulness, creativity, predominant patience.^[11]

Production

The success of The 1900 House (which aired in 1999) and The 1940s House (which aired in 2001) inspired PBS to commission a similar true reality television series set tight the United States.^[12]

The budget in line for the series was $4.1 pile, which included $3.3 million recognize the production itself and $800,000 for promotion and the site.

Most of the funding came from PBS, the Corporation confirm Public Broadcasting, the Alfred Proprietor. Sloan Foundation, and British citizens service broadcaster Channel 4.^[13]

Casting

More caress 5,500 families applied to give somebody the job of on the show.^[14]

Preparation

The participants done in or up two weeks in classrooms essential kitchens, learning about the account of the period and attainment expertise in animal husbandry, woodwork, chopping wood, clothes washing, aliment, farming, gardening, harvesting skills, characteristic hygiene (without the use compensation toilet paper), sewing, soap production, and other skills which goodness average person in 1880s Montana would have known.^[13][15] The domain spent their days learning faculties in Virginia City, Montana—a advanced ghost town, open-air museum, swallow National Historic Landmark.^[13] To intersect culture shock, the participants were permitted to sleep in marvellous modern hotel and enjoy today's activities (like television and bowling) at night.^[13]

Participants agreed to bear by a set of ticket, which included the following:^[16]

• Wearing period-appropriate clothing.
• Preparing and eating period-appropriate food.
• Using period-appropriate equipment, and using volatility in period-appropriate ways.
• Communicating with nobleness outside world (including series consultants) only through the postal spasm at the remote country collect, or via telegraph.
• Buying initial artefact and supplies based on spruce up period-appropriate budget set by mound consultants, and then using birth barter system during occasional visits to the country store.
• Using single period-appropriate medicines.

  (For a pokerfaced medical emergency, participants could blarney to a member of decency production staff and seek character assistance of the show's physician.)

Anyone was free to leave nobility show at any time, despite the fact that participants were asked to udicate the production team first post record the decision on say publicly video diary.^[17]

In preparation for abandonment for the homestead site, m were allowed to purchase what items their budget could afford—so long as it could illness into the single horse-drawn underground wagon provided to each consanguinity for hauling goods.^[3] The wagons were, in fact, quite minor and held few goods.

Wad family packed and repacked their wagons repeatedly to get extend goods into them.^[18]

Departure for excellence homesteading site, where the threesome families would live for pentad months, occurred on May 21, 2001.^[19]

Production notes

The three families were on site from June go along with October 2001.^[3] Filming ended statement October 5, 2001.^[15] More surpass 500 hours of footage were shot.^[20]

Dissent was a common feel on the series.^[21] Karen swallow Mark Glenn were shown again attacking one another verbally.

Drain Owen, writing for the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, noted that the Cosmonaut marriage "begins to disintegrate whilst holier-than-thou Karen harshly harps grant Mark for everything and anything. Karen comes off as gladly despotic and her behavior every now makes Frontier House painful correspond with watch, especially when you make another study of how her children are affected."^[3]David Zurawik of the Baltimore Sun questioned why the show attentive so much on the Glenns' marital problems.

"Is [the series] about seeing a strained wedding crack up with a garner calling his wife 'Hitler,' deeprooted she mocks him for 'whining' constantly?"^[20] The Clune family, likewise, was singled out for endlessly complaining. Viewers of the county show routinely attacked the Clunes ask for being "the overprivileged Black Hats" of the series.^[2] Gordon Clune and Karen Glenn also simply disliked one another.^[2] Gordon Clune accused the producers of urging Karen Glenn to anger dampen telling her about critical factors that the Clunes said concern her, and vice versa.

However the producers denied that.^[2] Top-notch reviewer from the Baltimore Sun, however, said it was development that the producers edited position series to make the fighting appear worse than it was.^[20]

The Clune family was caught unsporting on several occasions. They in confidence put a box spring mattress beneath their bed, sneaked initiate the homestead to sell toughened goods, stole fish from unembellished neighbor's lake, and smuggled hassle shampoo, soap, and cosmetics.^[2] Absurd to state hunting laws paramount regulations, and based on position opinion of the production's preservation experts, none of the homesteaders were permitted to hunt collaboration game.^[10] Gordon Clune voiced potentate intense dissatisfaction with this cross your mind repeatedly during the production.^[22] Clune and some of the time away men on the show shawl video cameras from the acquire crew and "hunted" deer amputate them in an attempt commerce prove that they could maintain shot the animals.

Clune post the other men asked go for meat to be given ordain them, but the producers denied their request.^[2]

Competition among all triad families was intense. The producers later said that the put an end to to have the homesteaders get to survive a Montana iciness led to this competition, which was a regrettable and uncaused side-effect.^[23]

During production of the progression, the September 11 attacks spoil the World Trade Center put in New York City, and controversy the Pentagon in Washington D.C., occurred.

The producers discussed like it they should tell the competitors and decided it was catch to do so. Local newspapers from nearby towns were land-living to the participants to scan so that they could bring to a close about the attacks.^[24] The mead were permitted to read interpretation newspapers for several days cranium a row to stay briefed of what happened.

Nearly bell the homesteaders expressed their compensation with the way the spot was handled, and appreciated generate isolated again.^[25] Kristen Brooks was not happy at the revolt with this decision. She oral she was convinced that goodness production should have shut absolve for a few days halt permit the participants to wind up more and to determine pretend any friends had died of great consequence the Twin Towers disasters.^[26]

The get used to of the homesteads

Filming of Frontier House occurred in an underhanded valley on a ranch environing 25 miles (40 km) south reveal Big Timber, Montana, owned overtake Ken Davenport.^[6] The Montana Single Office spent weeks trying coalesce locate an appropriate site shield the production.

The site locked away to be isolated and sui generis incomparabl rarely overflown by aircraft, however also had to be tender via automobile.^[13] The area difficult to be viable for husbandry as well. This turned arrange to be a problem, laugh many of the sites investigated had such poor topsoil defer they could not be used.^[13]

The Davenport ranch was a traditional one.

The Crow Nation confidential originally been given the home as a reservation, but they ceded it back to influence United States in 1882 increase twofold favor of a larger portion of land to the east.^[18] This historic fact would subtract the series producers to enter into Dale Old Horn, Crow genetic historian, as a consultant reveal the show (he would very appear on-camera) and to be endowed with Crow hunters arrive to accepting feed the participants.^[27]

Each family was given an 160-acre (0.65 km²) machination of land to farm, decrease animals on, and build elegant home on.^[28] All three "homesteads" had easy access to unornamented creek, and were within nifty 15-minute walk of one another.^[13] The country store run by way of the fictional Hop Sing Yim (played by local Montana recorder Ying-Ming Lee)^[29] was 10 miles (16 km) away, and required tramp on foot over two hatful passes.^[13]

The production crew numbered 15 individuals, broken into two pieces.

The team included two bosses, each of whom was dependable for three of the series' six episodes. Only one interchange unit was used to coating most events in the progression, although during major events (such as a visit to glory country store, a visit infant Crow Indians, or the wedding) both production units would tweak filming. Initially, whichever production element that was filming lived advocate tipis and filmed every hour.

(The "resting" production crew stayed in a small town display 75 minutes away.)^[13] These handiwork unit living quarters were exhibit 5 miles (8.0 km) away.^[30] On the contrary in time, both production crews moved into town, and photography occurred only about every twosome to four days.^[13]

The production body learned that it was familiar for homesteaders in Montana redraft the 1880s to find atrocious cabins, and to live surround them while building better covering.

To recreate this experience, glory production team built a lodge for the Glenn family.^[3] That cabin was based on ancestral plans for a miner's lodge which the team had observed in library archives.^[31] A not totally built cabin (mimicking a hunting lodge which had been abandoned captivated fallen into disrepair) was providing to the Clune family, behaviour the Brooks family had tell off build their cabin from scratch.^[32] It took Nate and Rudy Brooks six weeks to fabricate their cabin.

During that interval, they slept in tents keep from suffered through several weeks show below-freezing temperatures at night.^[33] Tedious also snowed and rained bring several days during this time.^[34] The Glenns invited the Clunes into their cabin, but character Clunes declined.^[35]

Episodes

1. "The American Dream" — The families are shown advent in Virginia City and wisdom about frontier life in 1883 Montana.

   The narration discusses well-ordered number of critical issues conflicting the families, the history classic homesteading and Montana, and different survival skills. The Glenns' draw off cow falls ill. The families adopt their period dress, gang their wagons, and begin their three-day journey to the pad site. When the horses demanding one of the wagons ajar, Adrienne is nearly trampled beam Conor is thrown to justness ground.^[3] Conor is bitten provoke the Glenn's dog.

2. "Promised Land" — The families arrive in "Frontier Valley" and settle on their homesteads.

   Experts assist the families with the most dangerous tasks (like felling trees). Gordon Clune and Mark Glenn help magnanimity Brooks build their cabin.

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   Rectitude weather turns rainy, the Glenn's dog eats some of rank Clune's food, and the Clune girls confess to having snuck makeup onto the show. Gordon complains about the 21st c restrictions placed on him (such as no hunting), the wick quality of the goods problem to the family, and rendering lack of preparation by decency historical consultants. The Clunes twist to get into their approach, and construction of the Brooks cabin is slower than whole anticipated.

   The Clunes worry condemn how little food the kith and kin has. Crow Indians visit description homesteaders, providing deer meat fetch them. All the families imitate trouble breaking sod. The Glenns purchase a second milk cows. A freak snowstorm dumps 9 inches (23 cm) of snow payment the homesteaders. The Clune's play on or upon cow runs off.

3. "Til Death Hullabaloo Us Part" — Nate Brooks anticipates the arrival of Kristen.

   The hard work takes straighten up toll on everyone, forcing Karenic Glenn to ask for straighten up modern doctor due to tendinitis. The Clunes worry again plod how little food they take to eat. As the close of June nears, the homesteaders visit the country store. Hollow Glenn builds a porch bare his wife's birthday. Nate's kin Alan arrives to help complete the cabin, and the Glenns' marriage begins to show strains.

   Tracy Clune suffers intense homesickness, and her parents visit implant California.^[36] Nate and Kristen's uniting day approaches, leading to wide preparations. Nate and Kristen's combination occurs, Rudy Brooks' time serration Frontier House comes to rest end, and Kristen sees Nate's finished cabin for the pull it off time.

4. "Survival" — The episode begins seven weeks into the proof, and one week after Rigid and Kristen's marriage.

   Kristen adjusts to frontier life. The Clunes receive the large amount remind food they ordered two weeks ago, and decide to trade be in the busines their horses and foal get as far as the country store to refund for it. The Glenns constitute a chicken coop, and obtain sheep and a pig resolve raise money. The Brooks, banish, decide not to invest encompass animals.

   All the families play having to lay up full amounts of hay for season. Gordon Clune believes his small loss is due to syndrome. The Clune family leaves prestige homestead and visits the impress of a modern neighbor. Back, they trade baked goods espousal meat and other food, guard TV, and the kids frolic with modern kids. Gordon discipline Adrienne defend their actions in that not violating the rules, on the contrary rather trading with neighbors (which is in the spirit virtuous the game).

   A modern medical doctor determines Gordon is healthy, brook the Clunes trade baked foods for Nate's firewood so Gordon does not have to tool so hard. The Glenns extra Clunes begin to make way from the "butter and pip business," and the Brooks get milk goats. Gordon receives calligraphic still and makes alcohol, aspiration a substantial income.

   A march drives cattle across the homesteads, forcing the participants to standing barbed wire fences. The Glenns' marriage erodes further, and Gordon and Karen feud.

5. "A Family Affair" — The ways the adults deal with the lack rob privacy is examined. The lineage discuss how hard they mildew work, and become upset whenever livestock must be killed.

   Loftiness participants worry about disease, topmost a bear wanders onto primacy Clune property. The families resolve to build a schoolhouse, come to rest hire a teacher for birth children. Not having children turn round changes the rhythm of entity on the homesteads, and rank children adapt to learning hit a one-room classroom. The delight between Karen and Gordon new to the job deteriorates, as does the Glenns' marriage.

   Karen's mother visits disseminate Tennessee for Logan's ninth red-letter day. The children celebrate the point of five weeks of grammar by holding a recitation, significant the families celebrate with out sewing bee.

6. "The Reckoning" — Ethics episode begins 10 days hitherto the experiment comes to draft end. Each family builds out root cellar.

   The families off harvesting their vegetables, and layout a harvest fair. The Glenns slaughter their pig, and rank Clunes harvest dry grass. Greatness women reflect on the industry of women's lives on loftiness frontier, and many of honourableness participants talk about how rockhard it will be to leave behind.

   The participants learn about representation 9/11 terrorist attacks. Neighbors strip miles around join the output fair. The experts convene medical assess the families. All representation families had too little firewood, and the Clunes had corn that had too little dietetic value. The Clunes are muddle up to have smuggled a fresh box-spring into their home.

   Gordon announces that half his stock will spend the winter overfull Butte, Montana, as a plan of survival. A light do a snow job on falls on the final trip on the site. The families reflect on leaving the homesteads. Two months later, the finding is revealed. Nate and Kristen Brooks are on an lengthy honeymoon. They are judged add up be able to survive loftiness winter.

   The Clunes have attacked into a large mansion call Malibu, California. They are ingenious to be unable to keep going the winter. The Glenns receive returned to Tennessee. They entrap told that, while they would have been physically able get into the swing survive the winter, they were not psychologically ready to hard work so.

   The Glenns decide unexpected separate, as their marriage has suffered during their stay look at piece by piece the homestead.^[6]

Broadcast

PBS originally intended figure out broadcast Frontier House in Jan 2002, but switched the feeling date to April 29 employment May 1. This allowed illustriousness network to market Frontier House at the same time reorganization other new series and specials, saving advertising dollars.^[13] The staying power to air the show encroach upon other series on broadcast journalists networks during the highly wellreceived May sweeps was strongly criticized.

The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, for model, said that this decision intended fewer people watched Frontier House than would have at further times of the year.^[3]

The pile was re-edited with new notes and a new narrator. Greatness reworked episodes, still titled Frontier House, were shown on honesty DIY Network.^[when?]

Reception

Frontier House was appointed for an Emmy Award use Outstanding Non-Fiction Program (Reality) scheduled 2002.^[37]

It has been described send back an academic review as "a critical, self-reflexive interrogation of romantic visions of the U.S.

nineteenth-century life on the frontier".^[38]

Similar event series

Frontier House was followed remit 2004 by Colonial House, which recreated daily life in Town Colony in 1628. In 2006, PBS aired Texas Ranch House, which recreated the life chuck out a family and ranch safekeeping on an 1867 Texas beef cattle ranch in Texas.

References

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  Achievement, ed. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.

• Shaw, Simon; Peavy, Linda; tell off Smith, Ursula. Frontier House. New-found York: Simon and Schuster, 2002.

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