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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 26, 2001
Page
21
The feature honors Women's History Month with a tale of pioneer women in the West. It notes Native American and Mexican presence, overlanders on the trail, and the hardships they faced from disease hunger and hardship on the journey.
The Mississippi River marked the East West divide as settlers moved west in the 1800s. Gold drew many from 1843 to 1860 while the Great Plains spanned modern Kansas to Texas. In 1862 the government offered 160 acres to settlers who planted, built, and lived on the land for five years.
The article notes how building materials near pioneer sites determined the type of homes. It describes sod houses in Nebraska, tepees possibly by buffalo hide, Pueblo stone apartments with clay and straw coating, and sun baked adobe bricks.
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