Young Pioneer Children:
Pioneer children would have to help with household chores. Life on the prairie was hard. Children would stop working with household chores around age ten.
Young Pioneer children worked gathering eggs, feeding animals, and making soap and candles.
Pioneer children worked hard, but they still made time for fun.
Older Pioneer children (around age 11-17):
Older pioneer children would mostly do most of the cloth washing and laundry.
These older kids started to attend school. The younger children (9 and younger) did not go to school at the time. There were no desks in the school. Only stone slabs to write on. The school was only a one room log school.
The older children would also pull crops out in the fields.
Pioneer Women:
The pioneer women did not stop working until the sunset, they actually did MOST of the work on the trail.
Pioneer women spent their day looking after for her children, cooking, cleaning, making candles and soap, doing laundry, and helping her husband and older kids in the fields.
Most pioneer women had a large family, so they would mostly take care of her kids.
Pioneer Men:
Before the day, Pioneer men and grandfathers would take care of animals in the barn by milking cows, and cleaning up after the rest of the animals.
The men would sometimes get off track and have horse races and bet money of certain horses.
Sunday morning, the men would go to a gathering. Sort of like a church. They would discuss beliefs and things that would happen on the trail daily.
Pioneer Entertainment:
Some games they would play was "Hoops and Sticks". Hoops and Sticks was about throwing rusty metal pieces of horseshoes onto hooks. Just like the game, Horseshoes.
They would also do spelling bees, and hunt animals like foxes and deer for fun and also for survival.
They had many other games that were complicated to explain.
The Transportation:
Some transportation the Pioneers used were, Stagecoach, and the milk-wagon.
Stagecoach:
Milk-Wagon:
