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The Life of Westward Pioneers

The Daily Dose provides short history documentaries like this one delivered to your inbox daily: https://dailydosedocumentary.com Books by the filmmaker: Westward Rising Sons: https://amzn.to/3Nq3NES Turbulence & Alchemy of the 1960s: https://amzn.to/3YiCRND Wings of Glory: https://amzn.to/3A0cvqr Teachers, check out our entire film catalog organized by curriculum and category here: https://www.platospeach.com/catalog/ or as a spreadsheet here: bit.ly/dailydosedocumentary We strive for accuracy and unbiased fairness, but if you spot something that doesn’t look right please submit a correction suggestion here: https://forms.gle/UtRUTvgMK3HZsyDJA Learn more: https://dailydosedocumentary.com/ Subscribe for daily emails: https://subscribe.dailydosenow.com/ Books by the filmmaker: https://tompagebooks.com #documentary #history #biography Today's Daily Dose short history film covers the daily lives experienced by pioneers during America's years of westward expansion. Sample from script: Nearly all pioneer parties experienced the same daily routine, which started at four A.M. when pioneers were awakened by the blare of a bugle or trumpet or even a rifle shot if the watchman wasn’t worried about remaining discreet. The next hour would be spent gathering up personal items, although most pioneer wagon trains remained well packed in case of storms or hostile highwaymen or Native Americans. By five A.M, men and boys would wrangle up the grazing livestock, while women and older girls readied a hearty breakfast for the day’s long journey, usually made up of fried bacon, corn porridge and johnny cakes, the later consisting of cornbread inspired by Eastern woodland Native Americans. Once breakfast was over, those in charge of milking livestock would hang buckets of milk beneath prairie schooners, where the swaying motion of the day’s ride would churn the milk into butter for the evening meal. Meanwhile, men and older boys would break camp by six A.M., wedging tents, cooking supplies and bedding into already tightly packed schooners. Women and older girls were put on dish duty, while men checked livestock for injuries and harness chafing from the previous day’s trek, since a limping or favoring animal could slow down the overall progress of the caravan. Salves and tight wraps were applied as necessary, while scouts and guides would set out to gather water for the day’s westward push. Wagons ho was called at seven A.M., again with the blare of a bugle or trumpet, where the prompt were placed at the front of the wagon train, while all stragglers would spend the day eating dust at the rear of the procession. Once in motion, most pioneers walked beside their schooners, since riding inside was oftentimes a bumpy, tortuous experience. Most pioneers traveled in silence as they listened to dry prairie grass crunching beneath creaking wagon wheels, the panting of laboring livestock, and the sounds of crickets and chirping birds, while children were tasked with collecting small sticks, branches and buffalo chips for the evening fires. At noon, most caravans would break for a light lunch, hydrating both themselves and their livestock, while others would wipe the dust from the snouts of their livestock before setting out on their chosen westward trail by 1:00 P.M. During the afternoon, small hunting parties would break off in search of buffalo or deer, which became increasingly more difficult to find by the mid 19th century due to over-hunting. Westward progress would end usually by 5:00 P.M., when scouts chose flat, high ground campsites that gave night watchmen a 360 degree view of the surrounding prairies, mountains or hillsides. Wagons were then formed into a protective circle, while livestock was unyoked and released onto the prairie for a night of grazing. As women and older girls prepared the evening meal, men repaired wagons, while other women not on cooking duty made up sleeping arrangements for the night. Once the dinner dishes and cooking implements had been cleaned up, most pioneers settled down to some recreation around the campfire. Men smoked pipes between conversations, while the women sat in gossip circles as they stitched or crocheted or wrote letters for their loved ones back east. Fiddle and harmonica players made up an added bonus to a pioneer’s evening, until most pioneers went to bed around eight o’clock for a few hours of shuteye, but only after the night watchmen had been chosen to cover guard shifts throughout the night. Sleeping on the hard ground made sleep a challenging endeavor, yet as the night settled in, most pioneers could be certain of one thing—they were one day closer to their destination, in a place they collectively dreamed of as the land of milk and honey.