The Frontier Experience

The Frontier Experience

25 mins | Drama | Jan. 1, 1975

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. Filmed on location in Kansas, starring Barbara Loden, who also directed the film. An LCA release. 25 minutes, color.

The Frontier Experience

25 mins | Drama | Jan. 1, 1975

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. Filmed on location in Kansas, starring Barbara Loden, who also directed the film. An LCA release. 25 minutes, color.
Producers learning corporation of america
Original title The Frontier Experience
Directors Barbara Loden
Writers Joan Micklin Silver

Cast

Barbara Loden

as Delilah Fowler

Roger Hoffman

as George Fowler

Tim Petty

as Eugene

Sharon O'Donnell

as Caroline

Kelly Heft

as Alice