Settling the frontier was definitely not for the fainthearted. Unsettled areas still had wildlife and native american peoples who had lived there for generations. Later homesteaders were likely to come into conflict with open range cattle or sheep herders who saw the land and the water as theirs even though they did not own it. Killing and sabotage of homesteaders was a common event. Just as we find when we do a DIY project at home, there is always some other tool or material you need. However, in the early homesteading days, people had to be resourceful in repurposing what they had or create the object themselves. Prairies and other lands did not have trees, so people built homes out of sod. Greased paper served as windows. In the southwest, people made bricks of clay that were tempered with straw and gravel. In the late 1800s, as society increased, brickyards, stores, blacksmiths and others came into areas. As the railroads came, then the kits to build houses as well as other building materials came by rail.
The Comanche.
because they were worth 2-4 million, which was enought for the farmers to buy.
They were called Sodbusters. In the open Plains they lacked trees so they used sod to build their homes
A problom that farmers faced during the last half of the 19Th century was cheating wifes.
I can give you one, barbed wire. It hepled people keep their livestock from running away.
The nickname for plains farmers is okies.
The plains could not be farmed as easily as other farms. Most parts of the region had little rainfall and very few streams for irrigation. One approach made was called Dry farming witch allowed farmers to farm without water.
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plains farmers
Weather was one the biggest problems. Hot and windy in the summer. Cold and snowy in the winter.
Plains farmers
its more dependent on rail roads
they were homesteaders. not farmers.
its more dependent on rail roads
There was competition between ranchers and farmers to settle in the Great Plains because they wanted to have more land.
Plains are special because animals roam there and farmers grow there crops there.