PIONEER QUEST: A YEAR IN THE REAL WEST is a reality-based series that chronicles two couples' experiences as they live the lives of prairie settlers in the late 1800s. The twenty-something Logies and the forty-something Treadways are given a plot of untouched land north of Winnepeg, Canada. They are equipped with tools, clothing, animals and seeds that the average nineteenth-century settlers would have brought with them. The only concessions to modern times are birth control, a handheld camera for recording and a cell phone for any medical emergencies. This nine-episode series follows these intrepid couples as they spend the coldest winter in 120 years in their new homes on the Manitoba prairie.