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horseswash day hintswashing clotheswater sourceswestern Indianswestern USwestern US expeditionswestern expansionwestern expeditionswestern exploration.western fortswestern grasslandswestern legends in Americawestern migration of pioneerswestern militia in war of 1912western pioneer travel. scientific american magazinewestern railroadswestern settlers in early Americawestern trail blazerwestward explorationwestward migration in Americawestward trailwestward travelwet plate photographywhite settler treatment of Indianswhitening laundry frontier stylewind wagonswindmillswindmills on the prairiewindow taxwindowswinter 1885-6winter Pioneer Activitieswinter of 1886-7wolveswoman's records of westward journeywomen chores in a pioneer fortwomen of the western frontierwomen on the wagon trailwomen on the wagon trainwomen teacherswomen's charity groups on the frontierwomen's duties on the wagon trainwomen's education historywomen's journalswomen's journals of the American pioneerswomen's lobbying on frontierwomen's overland journalswomen's relief organizationswomen's rightswomen's role on the frontier trailwomen's votewood pulp and straw paperwork on the frontierworking frontier womenworking pioneer womenwrappingPieces of Pioneer History in Americahttp://pioneerpieces6.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.com (Unknown)Blogger970125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-752039141173585430.post-5879364549703232821Mon, 19 Oct 2020 13:58:00 +00002020-10-19T09:58:19.781-04:00Fred Harveyrailroad restaurantsThe Harvey Girls In 1863 George Pullman introduced the first dining car for passengers on the railroad.  In a few years, however, Pullman withdrew from the restaurant business, citing unprofitability.  It seems that the dining car was originally a problem for the American railroad and Pullman's absence only made the problem worse...let's backtrack just a bit.The popular way of eating in route http://pioneerpieces6.blogspot.com/2020/10/the-harvey-girls.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-752039141173585430.post-2441424893268330711Thu, 15 Oct 2020 14:11:00 +00002020-10-15T10:11:21.717-04:00early railroad historylunch counterquick lunch. early railroad travelRail travel in the days before dining cars, did not allow meals or upper class dining on board.  The "quick lunch" was the acceptable way Americans were fed.  The train would stop at stations  (like the B & O station on the right) and passengers were given 15-20 minutes to consume food.  The cuisine consisted of pies, patties, cakes, hard-boiled eggs, hams, and custard http://pioneerpieces6.blogspot.com/2020/10/the-quick-lunch.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-752039141173585430.post-4222719431758100719Mon, 12 Oct 2020 14:30:00 +00002020-10-12T10:30:06.375-04:00early train travelfirst passenger trainsEvery early passenger car was divided in several separate compartments which held between six to eight people. (see photo on right) Here passengers were confined for the journey.  This traditional and conservative design resembled the horse drawn carriage and in fact, the earliest cars were made by simply putting together on one frame several old-fashioned carriage bodies.  The car was http://pioneerpieces6.blogspot.com/2020/10/close-train-quarters.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-752039141173585430.post-2496424803303458171Thu, 08 Oct 2020 12:11:00 +00002020-10-08T08:11:37.274-04:00class distinctionsearly railroad travelSamuel Breckupper class pioneersThe American opportunity to travel was a good equalizer in the early days.  The transportation systems, like rail, tended to not only reduce the difference between cities but between classes as well.  In America, the "common people" traveled more and steam locomotion confined people more closely for longer periods of time, erasing distinctions of class.  In the desire to arrive http://pioneerpieces6.blogspot.com/2020/10/riding-with-class-distinction.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-752039141173585430.post-5965767037314668490Mon, 05 Oct 2020 13:41:00 +00002020-10-05T09:41:00.517-04:00building the railroadearly railroad history American technology was a for a land of the future, but Americans seldom thought they were building for that future.  They viewed technology in present-tense.  The British were the ones who build for the future, but not Americans.  They built for the present.Americans were too worried about making a little capital go a long way - both monetarily and in regards to distance.&http://pioneerpieces6.blogspot.com/2020/10/building-for-future-or-not.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-752039141173585430.post-3681620780678361027Thu, 01 Oct 2020 12:10:00 +00002020-10-01T08:10:21.738-04:00early steam locomotiveearly train travelJoseph Harrisonrailroad historythe Mercury For the American railroad, drastic and unique changes were required in design.  John Bloomfield Jervis was determined to make those radical changes in locomotive design.  He built a low-swiveling locomotive with heavy drive wheels behind in 1832.  His Brother Jonathon was the first locomotive to have six wheels and was the fastest engine of its day, capable of speeds from http://pioneerpieces6.blogspot.com/2020/10/the-american-design.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-752039141173585430.post-2326777378643489537Mon, 28 Sep 2020 14:53:00 +00002020-09-28T10:53:14.094-04:00early locomotives railroad locomotives railroad engines designTrain accidents, like our modern automobile accidents were a common part of life in the 19th century.  And remedies were called for, but remedies seemed useless because the Americans need to get there quickly, to build cheaply, and to so as fast as possible didn't change.  The Americans tested European locomotives to see if they would run better on American rails...the results are not http://pioneerpieces6.blogspot.com/2020/09/early-locomotives.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-752039141173585430.post-7145635711987237815Mon, 21 Sep 2020 14:24:00 +00002020-09-21T10:24:37.283-04:00building the railroadearly railroadearly railroad historyEarly on,  American railroads were constructed in the quickest way, with little regard to safety, comfort or durability. Single tracks, steeper grades and sharper curves - no time to level inclines, cut tunnels or build up embankments.   America experimented with cheaper and quicker ways of laying tracks - with narrow gauges, wooden trestles in place of earthen or stone embankmentshttp://pioneerpieces6.blogspot.com/2020/09/shoddy-early-rail-construction.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-752039141173585430.post-3306701899420361824Wed, 16 Sep 2020 13:57:00 +00002020-09-16T09:57:00.151-04:00building the railroadCentral Pacific Railroadfirst transcontinental railroadUnion Pacific Railroad Unlike the steamboats that followed routes of nature, railroads were man-made routes.  Western railroads made settlements wherever they were laid along those routes.  Where the railroad went, so did the people.  As one traveler recorded in 1856, "the prairies and the railroads were made for each other.  For hundreds of miles you didn't need to do anything but raise the http://pioneerpieces6.blogspot.com/2020/09/building-rails.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-752039141173585430.post-7357551783136453110Mon, 14 Sep 2020 14:33:00 +00002020-09-14T10:33:21.939-04:00steamboat dangerssteamboats An American sailing vessel's life expectancy was 20 years, whalers maybe 60 years.  An eastern steamboat could be expected to last nine years in 1860.  The western steamboat, however was in operation slightly over two years.  Why?  Western steamboats had an appalling record for accidents.  A trip down the Mississippi was far more dangerous that an ocean voyage.In http://pioneerpieces6.blogspot.com/2020/09/danger-on-western-rivers.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-752039141173585430.post-2618858285465757479Thu, 03 Sep 2020 15:13:00 +00002020-09-03T11:14:00.377-04:00Oliver Evanssteamboat engines In the 1820s when steamboats were common on western waters, most of them were powered by engines built in the cities of Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, or Louisville.  There were specifically designed to meet western needs.  The story of that engine is an interesting one...The first engine in practical use in America was of "low pressure design" and was manufactured and built by the Watt http://pioneerpieces6.blogspot.com/2020/09/the-western-steam-engine.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-752039141173585430.post-6445369268118822768Mon, 31 Aug 2020 21:04:00 +00002020-08-31T17:04:50.749-04:00steamboatsteamboat dangerssteamboatsBetween the Revolution and the Civil War, the story of speed was nowhere more evident than on the Mississippi River.  It was a natural superhighway, extending 4000 miles with branches reaching within 800 miles of the Pacific Ocean.  Western steamboat life was a racing life, a dangerous, delightful diversion.  Racing steamboats became popular and competitive.  John Fitch http://pioneerpieces6.blogspot.com/2020/08/all-speed-ahead.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-752039141173585430.post-7275886200275268572Thu, 27 Aug 2020 13:01:00 +00002020-08-27T09:01:00.337-04:00prairie schoonerWestward Migrationwestward travel It was a hurry-up mindset that decisively shaped the technology of American travel.  The need to move fast over long distances shaped the highways and vehicles by which pioneers moved west.  A  technology of haste...Long, dangerous stretches of desert, a lack of water, deep snows and hostile Indians made the travel west one where the quicker you made it through, the safer youhttp://pioneerpieces6.blogspot.com/2020/08/a-need-for-speed.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-752039141173585430.post-6899180272037229650Mon, 24 Aug 2020 13:58:00 +00002020-08-24T09:59:36.276-04:001800 west1800 western expedition1850s western migration1860s migration to western USA1860s on the plainsghost townghost townsThe thing is, people didn't move to the West, the pioneers moved "in" the West.  The Westward movement was made of people who were often vague and unsure of their purpose, sometimes ambitious, but more uncertain of where that ambition should be rooted.  Americans were a new kind of migrants.  They didn't have a set destination. They valued the freedom to move, always looking to http://pioneerpieces6.blogspot.com/2020/08/come-quickly-leave-quickly.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-752039141173585430.post-6008458432429445025Thu, 20 Aug 2020 15:40:00 +00002020-08-20T11:40:40.225-04:00Northwest historyNorthwest TerritoryOld NorthwestOld Northwest HistoryLike the colonial east, the new western territories state capitals were also mobile.  In Ohio the first permanent settlement was the first seat of civil government in the Northwest Ordinance of 1787.  The capital was Marietta where 47 men of General Rufus Putnam came up the Ohio on the "Ohio Mayflower" on April 7, 1788.  The first general assembly on September 16, 1799, with 5000 http://pioneerpieces6.blogspot.com/2020/08/early-capitals-of-midwest.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-752039141173585430.post-7754556494673819678Mon, 17 Aug 2020 13:00:00 +00002020-08-17T09:00:06.713-04:001800 west1800's american pioneers1800s America1800s American Frontierghost townsThe Western landscape by nature reflected the moving on spirit. The remains of wagon train settlements were abandoned by those looking for a fresh start. A nearly empty continent with fast moving families  left behind the abandoned places we know as ghost towns - places left before they were used up.in Iowa, for example a list from 1930 of towns, villages, even post offices that had http://pioneerpieces6.blogspot.com/2020/08/ghost-towns.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-752039141173585430.post-8773406326949214116Thu, 13 Aug 2020 11:39:00 +00002020-08-13T07:39:02.840-04:001800 west1800s American Frontier1800s American pioneers1800s American west19th Century women This movable society of settlers going west had guidelines for moving...supplies that should be left behind, like elegant clothing, heavily carved furniture, or a silver service - which were plainly not practicable on the trail going west.  All possessions were to be secure, compact and portable.  Space and weight had to be conserved for food, water, shelter, ammunition and tools.http://pioneerpieces6.blogspot.com/2020/08/no-place-for-lady.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-752039141173585430.post-5614094761703016345Mon, 10 Aug 2020 14:30:00 +00002020-08-10T10:30:23.723-04:00covered wagondeath on wagon trainsfrontier wagonsoverland trail pioneer wagon trailpioneer wagonsurvival on wagon trainsWagon Trains We are on the road again - well, the trail again.  The trip west, and the communities settled there were unique in the things they left behind.  Unlike their ancestors back east, the first thing they left behind was the ritual of burial in a churchyard cemetery.  Burial "according to the custom of the Prairies" was quick.  No funeral clothes, no casket and no tombstone.&http://pioneerpieces6.blogspot.com/2020/08/on-road-again.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-752039141173585430.post-7039776553371204636Mon, 03 Aug 2020 17:06:00 +00002020-08-03T13:08:46.191-04:00Henry PlummerSo what happened to Sheriff Plummer and his highway thugs? Henry was born of good stock whose family settled in New England in the early 1600s. Henry lost his father while Henry was still a teenager. He went West at age 19 to search for gold in California. In two short years Henry owned a ranch, a mine and a bakery.  He was elected sheriff in 1856. He lost his election for state http://pioneerpieces6.blogspot.com/2020/08/the-fate-of-henry-plummer.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-752039141173585430.post-3695575118522738281Thu, 30 Jul 2020 16:07:00 +00002020-07-30T12:08:45.539-04:00George IvesHenry PlummerVigilante JusticeThe story  so far in Montana where Sheriff Plummer and his men - Gallagher, Stinson and Ray have control of the town of Bannack, stealing, gold, property, and Killing over 100 of the townspeople. The honest citizens have begun to organize,  beginning at the murder trial of Deputy Billingham. ' Presiding was Dr. G. G. Bissell, along with two other doctors. The prosecutor was http://pioneerpieces6.blogspot.com/2020/07/the-case-of-george-ives.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-752039141173585430.post-5487812608064096343Mon, 27 Jul 2020 14:51:00 +00002020-07-27T10:52:12.759-04:00Henry Plummerhistory of MontanaVigilante JusticeVigilantismIn Bannack,  Montana, the story of vigilantism is best told in a book titled Vigilantes of Montana by Thomas Dimsdale in 1866. The book was the first book published in Montana/Idaho Territory. It's the story of Henry Plummer who first arrived in gold country in 1852 as a teenager.  He settled in Nevada City.  He visited many mining camps before coming to Bannock, ran http://pioneerpieces6.blogspot.com/2020/07/vigilantism-in-montana.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-752039141173585430.post-4023655658825080311Thu, 23 Jul 2020 16:30:00 +00002020-07-23T12:30:19.733-04:001850s mining townsmining camp lawmining campsmining townsOld West Mining Historypioneer mining womenThese "mining camp courts" were another name for an assembly of all who swung a pick or held a claim.  It voted on punishment for theft and murder, decided ownership and boundaries of claims.  It did not decide minor personal disputes or collect debts.The early Western mining court lacked permanent officials (except the occasional alcalde) and also lacked written laws.  No records http://pioneerpieces6.blogspot.com/2020/07/mining-camp-courts.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-752039141173585430.post-5107209203995458625Mon, 20 Jul 2020 14:55:00 +00002020-07-20T10:56:39.530-04:001850s mining townsmining camp lawmining campsOld West Mining HistoryThe mining camps developed laws that were spontaneous, local and independent of the world around them.  They were living outside the law of Mexico, but not within the law of any United States yet.  The de facto Governors of California territory had problems enough without trying to govern the miners against their will.  The "alcalde" heard disputes during the Gold Rush in a http://pioneerpieces6.blogspot.com/2020/07/the-alcade-style-law.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-752039141173585430.post-6200263209117376843Thu, 16 Jul 2020 14:06:00 +00002020-07-16T10:07:46.033-04:001850s mining townsmining campsmining townspioneer law"We need no law" wrote an old pioneer of the mining camps. Since we have discussed vigilante law in these camps, there is another record of a far different viewpoint.  Contrary to the legends surroundings the mining camps there was order. Their law was spontaneous, for the good of the community, not the individual self.   Like law in colonial America, law was nothing more than the http://pioneerpieces6.blogspot.com/2020/07/no-law-is-law.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-752039141173585430.post-6525572687923087305Mon, 13 Jul 2020 16:36:00 +00002020-07-13T12:37:46.524-04:001850s mining townsmining campsmining townsOld West Mining Historypioneer lawGoing back to the mining camp laws of the 1840s and 1850s of a couple of posts ago, these were communities in the West made up of temporary, or transient people,  They were far from courts and government institutions.  Given this kind of community there were problems.  Put man together in a place without structure or rules and you have problems.  These mining camps were rough http://pioneerpieces6.blogspot.com/2020/07/time-is-money.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)0