Both texts present an accurate account of the lives of the pioneers in North America. They approach the same elements of the pioneers' life, but in a different way, while "O pioneers" uses more real evidence, "Women on the lone prairie," on the other hand, presents more adapted elements that although they fit better in a fictional text , still present a real account.
An example of this can be seen in the way in which the authors describe the climate that the pioneers had to face, as "O pioneers!" addresses the difficult periods when the pioneers had to face the drought, "Women on the lone prairie" addresses the extreme cold in the winter and the constant threats of fire in the summer.
The era the excerpt have represented was the Romanticism or the Romantic Era. It was a creative, imaginative, melodic, highbrow development that started in Europe moving to the end of 18th century, and in most areas was at its prime at 1800 to 1850.