Use this American Pioneering video entitled Life on the Great Plains to study life on The Great Plains and the crops, clothing, tools and shelters used by pioneers.
Study the ways in which the pioneers over came the lack of wood as building material and the type of shelters they built. Explore the hardships and loneliness the pioneers endured, by listening to some of the words they wrote. Discover how evolving land practices and new agricultural equipment marked the end of the pioneering era, as farming became big business by 1900.