Could a 21st-century family survive in 1883 Montana? That’s the question PBS tried to answer in its excellent six-hour Frontier House, a WNET production that premiered this spring. The show put three clans—Brooks (Massachusetts), Clune (California) and Glenn (Tennessee), selected from more than 5,000 applicants—in a supervised frontier setting. Then after five months, a panel of experts judged their efforts and attitudes and ruled if they could have lasted out the winter. Call it a cr
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