Pioneer Quest: A Year in the Real West

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 endure an infestation of mosquitoes; isolation and close quarters cause emotional stress.

Crop failure; the settlers begin to hunt and cut firewood; snowstorm.

During the winter months the settlers make bread, quilts, furniture and deerhide moccasins; the dentist.

The settlers reflect on their experiences as they return to the 21st century.