Robert Lewis My experiment was about to begin.  I had been reading about John Muir and wondering. How did people in the early days do basic things? How did the American pioneers, my ancestors, do the simple things of survival? What did daily life feel like while walking the Oregon Trail? How did they start a fire? How did they sleep out without a roof? Everyone’s ancestors got through their days without the comforts we expect.  For a hundred thousand years and more, our ancestors did these things to solve these problems. They lived good lives. They relied on their […]