Pioneer Life by Aubrey S.

Imagine living in the wilderness and constantly moving, walking, hiking everywhere, waking up at 4 am by a gun shot then completing chores before starting the trail.




Pioneers doing their hard work on the plantation. As you can see they are having the animals pull dirt over the plants.

There was a lot of work to do for the pioneers. They had to build cabins without being able to use even a single nail. They also had to make another building for keeping all the animals safe. They had to make the barn for the animals because of all the wild animals that could put the farm animals in danger. The farmers also had to plant the plants they needed to use. After planting the seeds they had a oxen pull dirt over all the seeds planted. Also some farmers made their houses out of sod.

While researching about the pioneer’s life you get to accept a lot of knowledge about them. Some knowledge you will learn about is how far animals journeyed and who all went on the journey as pioneers. A lot of people were pioneers. Like: mormons or now known as the people of the church of Jesus Christ of latter day saints, black and whites, grandparents, newborns, and Jews all journeyed as pioneers. Every morning a rifle shot at 4 am! It was the pioneers version of a alarm clock. How do you think you would react to the gunshot? I bet I would jump. After waking up they had to do certain chores before they head out for the trail. Girls and boys had separate jobs to do.





This is the pioneers moving west seeking for adventure and moving to live their religion more freely.

I also ended up learning about the native americans while researching. The native americans were very smart. Many years before pioneers came there was the native americans who lived in the west. In the 1830s people called missionaries went to live with the native americans. Missionaries were people who would preach their religion to others to share it with them.Two reasons the pioneers moved west was so one they could live their religion more freely and 2 because some were seeking for adventure. Mountain men sometimes could’ve been mistaken for native americans since they learned how to dress, live, and eat like them.

It was a tough life for the pioneers. Constantly moving around. Would you like to keep moving and sleeping all over instead of staying in one spot or would you not like it? Do you think you would be willing to wake up that early as a pioneer? Would you like to live around people who did not like you at all?