FAIRFIELD, Utah — Before Saturday, Feb. 20, the 8- and 9-year-old girls in Girl Scout Troop 2104 had never shot a muzzle-loader rifle or sewn a handkerchief doll. Neither had three 10-year-old friends from Pleasant Grove or a pair of cousins from Eagle Mountain.

But after a day at the Fairfield Schoolhouse in Cedar Valley, everyone who'd come for "Camp Floyd Ladies Day" had played frontier games, done lessons on a slate, done laundry on a washboard and danced the Pattycake Polka. They learned about getting a portrait taken with a box-in-a-box camera.

They all knew what it was like to wear a dress with a hoop skirt and a little bit about playing "Graces" — a game involving hoops and long sticks.

"No way in a million years could I survive wearing this," said Kelsey Jones, 10, from Pleasant Grove, as she tried to fit her hoop skirt neatly into her school desk seat.

"I'd have to wear a dress everyday (if I was a pioneer)," said Carolyn Pedroza, 11, from Eagle Mountain. "And I'd probably miss my Gameboy and my WII."

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