Many critics criticized the lack of reasonable challenge for the Underwoods. The Underwoods treated their workers like a family. Voters turn against Conway, and the Underwoods win the election. In response, the Underwoods set up extensive surveillance on all White House personnel. When Remington decided to start producing ribbons themselves, the Underwoods opted to manufacture typewriters. Underwoods is a collection of poems by Robert Louis Stevenson published in 1887. The Underwoods farmed in Herkimer County, New York, for about a decade. The Underwoods company later became East Midland.