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Pioneering Life on the Plains: Challenges and Triumphs

Experience the trials and successes of settlers on the plains, from housing in dugouts and soddies to the advent of steel plows and barbed wire. Learn about the increase in land ownership, concepts, and the struggles faced with scarcity of resources and harsh weather conditions. Discover how families worked together on typical days filled with farming, hunting, and challenges like droughts, grasshoppers, and floods in the Midwest.

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Pioneering Life on the Plains: Challenges and Triumphs

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  1. Settlers on the Plains

  2. Housing • Dugouts-build in earth (problems: construction/solid?) • Soddies-built of earth (problems: snakes/spiders) • Stone (problem-scarcity)

  3. Technology • Early wooden plows couldn’t penetrate the soil enough • Steel plows increase production • Barbed wire and wind mills increase

  4. Land Ownership Concepts • Tracts of land sold by rail companies to farmers • Exodusters: AA’s going west to escape South • Advertisements entice people to go to MN/ND COULD OWN LAND!!

  5. Typical Day • Farming for men, or hunting • Children helped with farming-little education • Women were active contributors to the farm-expanded role • Challenges: droubt, cold, grasshoppers, labor, flooding in MW

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