Pioneer Life
Lets explore family from the past!
Understanding
Pioneer History
Living History Farms – Let’s take a visit!
Westward Expansion
When, why, and how?
Click on the prairie below to watch a movie and find out!
Why not build a log house?
Did all pioneers live in a log
home? Why or why not?
Five Frontiers of the
Iowa Pioneers
Indian Land Cessions
Pioneer Detectives
Mystery Photo from Campsilos
Share with your group your guesses.
Keep track in your journals what you are thinking!
Also brainstorm other ways you think farming has
changed from the past to now.
Clearing a field of
grasshoppers in 1875.
The environmental problems of raising a crop in a hostile
environment also plagued western farmers. Droughts and
bitter winter blizzards, great hail storms sweeping across the
prairies that could flatten a ripened wheat field in minutes,
diseases of grain and animal crops, all made economic
survival perilous. In the 1870s, waves of grasshoppers
moved across the plains at will, devouring everything in their
path
Grasshopper & Locust
Background
Let’s Look at some more information
about the plagues of grasshoppers and
locusts!
ANNALS OF IOWA
Vol. 4, No. 46 July, 1900
THE GRASSHOPPER INVASION.
BY THE LATE EX-GOV. CYRUS C. CARPENTER
Surviving on the Frontier!
Would you be a survivor?