The Ships of the Plains pp 6-7
This was the name given to the piece that connects the animal's harnesses to the wagon.
What is the Tongue?
What are droughts?
This is the time the day began for the pioneers
When is 4 am?
This crop was easy for early pioneers to grow and store
What is corn?
This was the first type of home that many pioneers in the plains had.
What is a dugout?
DAILY DOUBLE!
These were made to be light and strong--the complete opposite of Conestoga Wagons.
What is the Prairie Schooner?
Sodbusters built these to pump water from deep wells.
What are windmills?
This is the shape the wagons made to pen in the oxen at night.
What is a circle?
Early pioneers depended on these two things for protection, to get food, and to build shelter.
What are rifles and axes?
This famous author wrote about her experiences growing up in the Midwest in the 1870s and 1880s.
Who was Laura Ingalls Wilder?
This box held the tools on a wagon.
What is the jockey box?
DAILY DOUBLE!
Thanks to this blacksmith from Vermont, settlers used a steel plow to slice through prairie sod.
Who was John Deere?
This prairie animal was used by Native Americans but was practically destroyed by the pioneers.
What is a buffalo?
These wagons were named for the Pennsylvania valley in which they were made.
What are Conestoga wagons?
These are the dried droppings of cattle used to make fires.
What are cow chips?
This part of the wagon was made out of hickory wood and supported the canvas top.
What were the bows?
This swarm of bugs chewed through fields of grain, leather boots, and harness straps.
What were the short-horned grasshoppers or locusts?
This is the name given to the midday break that the travelers took.
What is nooning?
This is what pioneers did to their Conestogas before floating them across a river.
What is remove the wheels?
This nickname was given to the sod cut into blocks.
What is Nebraska Marble?
People heading west hoping to get rich were said to have this condition.
What was "Gold Fever"?
These created dust storms that turned the skies to black during the hot, dry summer months without rain.
What were high winds?
DAILY DOUBLE!
This is the percentage of pioneers who died due to the native Americans
What is 4 percent?
This person and his woodsmen created the first and only usable route through the Appalachian Mountains to Kentucky.
Who was Daniel Boone?
DAILY DOUBLE!
These are the two types of trees that are used to make roof poles.
What are cottonwood and willow trees?