Yes, PBS had "Frontier House" on a few years ago. The show was somewhat of a fraud. PBS wouldn't let the families use guns on the show to kill animals for food. The father of one of the families complained about this, but it was suppressed by PBS. Never underestimate the ability of PBS to present the bias of left wing views in everything they do.
They did show the slaughtering of the pig which I found suprising.
I watched that too. I do remember the rich guy complaining more than once that they couldn't hunt and that the real frontier people did. It was also Montana's law that they couldn't hunt out of season. But they had a Native American hunt for them one time. Indian Nations could hunt anytime.