I was able to watch only bits and pieces of this series, but one thing that struck me was the attitude of the woman from Tennessee toward the Clunes. Early on, she condemned them (in a statement to the camera) for not being willing to accept help from the other families, and she said that if they couldn't live in the wilderness without that give-and-take between families they ought to go home. Later on, when the Tennessee family got a second cow and calf, and evicted the Clunes' cow and calf, the Tennessee woman condemned them for complaining about it, and said that if they couldn't be more self-reliant they ought to go home. She seemed to have a pre-conceived notion about the Clunes because they came from California and were more well-to-do than her family, and apparently in her mind the Clunes couldn't do anything right. Maybe I missed some part of the program where the Tennessee woman realized her prejudice?

Not that the Clunes were such great people or anything; even in the short time I watched the program, I tired of hearing the mother and the teenage daughters complaining about how this or that was "unfair". Who ever told them that pioneer life, or any other life for that matter, was fair?