The Frontier Experience

The Westward movement — and a woman's perspective of that movement — emerges in the dramatic story of Delilah Fowler's first year on the Kansas frontier in 1869. Based on diaries of the period, the program reveals the cruel violence, and even crueler loneliness, which early settlers encountered — but above all, it shows the quiet courage of those who lived it.

• John DuffyOriginal Music Composer
• Joan Micklin SilverWriter
• Barbara LodenDirector

• Barbara LodenDelilah Fowler
• Roger HoffmanGeorge Fowler
• Tim PettyEugene
• Sharon O'DonnellCaroline
• Kelly HeftAlice