Sandoval helped establish the settlement at Hardscrabble and Greenhorn. The songs often discuss the hardscrabble life and struggles of the Aussie battler. Large plantations, Hardscrabble, Cameron, and Leigh among them, were established in the antebellum period. The daughter of a farming family in Buckland, Massachusetts, Lyon had a hardscrabble childhood. Schofield's Flowers flourished in the hardscrabble neighborhood, a family-run business became infamous. In 1858, Grant rented out Hardscrabble and moved his family to Julia's father's 850-acre plantation. In total, 30 men, women, and children lived in Hardscrabble. The game takes place in and around the fictional Hardscrabble Island. Colonel Plumb agreed and arrived in the town then called Hardscrabble in February 1866. Fortunately for him, music was a distraction from his hardscrabble life. It is situated at a junction between Hardscrabble Canyon and East Canyon. Francis was raised in this hardscrabble theatrical circuit, often travelling with her mother. Dean Abigail Hardscrabble (voiced by Helen Mirren) is the strict dean of Monsters University. And my mom's politics were kind of hardscrabble. John Webber preferred the name "Hardscrabble" for the obvious reasons.