Settling the Great Plains: Inventions and Adaptations

In the decades after the Civil War, thousands of Americans moved to the western region known as the Great Plains from 1865 to the beginning of the 20th century.

Before the Civil War, most people who went to the West passed through the Great Plains. They believe that this area is a wasteless with huge trees. Their goal is to reach Far West - usually California or Oregon.

After the end of the civil war, the view on the Great Plains has changed. There are many new inventions, adaptations and technological advances that make it possible to cultivate the land in that area. The picture below shows some examples

The bottom two photos show Great Plains settlers. Trees used to build a house are hard to obtain because there are not many trees in the area. As a result, early settlers made their houses on the grass (the uppermost layer of the earth and grass) and cut and stack them to make walls. Even the roofs are often made of grass placed on wooden beams.

If the farm succeeds, the owner will later build a new house using the rail transport board.

When the settlers started migrating to the Great Plains they found that the cast iron plow blades that were commonly used in eastern states were often blocked. The earth of Great Plains is thick and rich and often sticks to the blade of cast iron.

Fortunately, the blacksmith John Deere invented a method of making plow blades from steel. Steel is harder than cast iron and can be made smooth enough to cut soil without clogging.

Plows made with steel blades below are from the demonstration of old agricultural techniques. Plow the soil without problems

The picture below is John Deere's steel coalter and the "back" plow wood handle. When a horse is cultivated, farmers use the handle to plow the blade with the right depth of the earth. Blade cuts and plays the earth, and prepares to plant

The pioneers of the new geographical topography have learned to innovate and find a way. They dug a well in places without enough lakes and rivers. Where plains of plains do not permit agricultural settlement, they invented barbed wire to hedge cows to hedge sheep. These and other various learning experiences are considered to be the result of humans acting as innovators of geography. Turner seems to say that the land itself makes people more independent. Independence is the core of American democratic experience, or we have told ourselves for a long time

Most people living in the western plains of North America are successful hunters and farmers who build a community around the river, next to the fertile valleys of the Great Plains. Other people emigrate by season, unpacking and reassembling their hints. However, before the Spanish invaded the area, there were no horses. Personal record: The American Holocaust was written in 1992, I graduated from high school in 1995. Perhaps so far, I was taught about many tragedies such as American indigenous culture and tears trajectory, and since I should pay attention to the majority of what I read in later chapters they are all It is cruel and obviously not suitable for children. However, I grew up in movies and shows. It shows that the earliest American people are their people with strong family and tribal relationships and multiple cultures.

In 1860, most Americans considered Great Plains as "Great America's Desert". The settlements in Minnesota, Iowa, Missouri, Arkansas, and Western Louisiana are on average 1 person per square mile. California and Texas are the only places that are highly settled in the western extreme. However, between 1865 and 1890, Americans pioneered 430 million acres in the western region - over 250 years of American history. By 1893, the Census Bureau was able to claim that the entire Western border was occupied.