Homes
A home built within 12 miles of a river and made with logs.
What is a log cabin?
Gathering food from animals with a fishing pole or gun.
Putting food into containers to keep for winter.
What is canning?
Process of making butter.
What is churning?
A home built into the side of a large hill with dirt walls and floors.
What is a dug-out?
Use of large equipment and teams of horses to plant seed and break sod.
What is farming?
Collection of milk product from a cow.
Gathering up what was laid by poultry.
What is picking eggs?
A home made from layers of sod.
What is a sod home (soddie)?
Constructing of railroad tracks.
What is working on the railroad?
Putting of pieces of cloth together to wear.
What is sewing/mending?
The watching of younger siblings.
What is babysitting?
A home made from newspaper covered with tar.
What is a tarpaper shack?
Sold in tons and found on the prairie.
What is collecting bison bones?
Created from lye and other products, used to clean themselves.
What is making soap?
Gathering of cattle or sheep.
What is herding?
A home made with cheap green lumber.
What is a claim shanty?
Out of state and chopping wood.
What is lumber camps?
Putting seeds in the ground by hand to grow vegetables.
What is gardening?
Poultry being given nutrients to survive.
What is feeding chickens/poultry?