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WHETSTONES
Pioneer Ranchers & Settlers Area
Wagon Train Cooking on the Bozeman Trail
People were excited that more land was available for settling. People were seeking for places to make a fresh start. Other people wanted to own land for farming while others were seeking for riches from the gold rush. Those who traveled west to begin a new life were called settlers, pioneers and emigrants. Even during its short existence, people such as these used the Bozeman Trail. A group of covered wagons traveling together was called a wagon train. Finding food to eat was not always easy as the travelers could go for days on the trail without seeing wild animals to hunt. Although pioneers hunted for meat along the trail, they brought other food with them as well. They traveled for months, so their food had to last the whole trip without spoiling. People stocked the wagons with flour, dried fruit, beans, potatoes and onions. They did not bring fresh fruit or vegetables with them because these foods would not have lasted very long. The pioneers often had bread, cakes or biscuits with their meals. Sometimes the dough was mixed with dried fruit to add flavor and nutrients. Meat included deer, buffalo, cattle and wild birds. Extra meat and leftovers were used to make stew. The fat drippings from meat were mixed with flour to make gravy. In desperate times, pioneers cooked snakes or prairie dogs, but these animals did not taste very good.
Churning butter took a lot of time and effort, so the pioneers found a new way to make it. They hung a bucket of milk at the rear of the wagon. The swaying motion of the wagon shook the milk during the say’s journey. By the time the wagon train reached the evening camp, the milk was churned into butter.
Homemade Butter
You can make butter at home without a churn. Just fill a jar with some cream and shake, shake!
Clean jar with a fitted lid (baby food jars work well)
Fry bread
The
Native Americans introduced this to the settlers.)
1 ½ c. flour
1 tsp. baking powder
1 Tbsp. butter, melted
½ c. warm milk
pinch of salt
pinch of sugar
4 Tbsp. vegetable oil
1. To make dough, mix all ingredients except oil in a bowl. Knead the dough until smooth and into four pieces. Shape each piece into a flat circle.
2. On medium heat, heat oil in a frying pan. Fry dough rounds one at a time until brown and crispy.
Pioneers
Ranchers & Settlers Area
Creative
Writing & Journals
Writing
stories and poetry helped children practice their language skills.
They wrote their lessons in books filled with unlined paper and used
copybooks to practice their penmanship, or handwriting skills.
Copybooks contained samples of letters and words to copy in a person’s
best handwriting.
Pioneer
students wrote in copybooks or on slates, but you can keep your creative writing
in a journal. Write down all the
things you see, hear, smell, taste and touch in your schoolyard or backyard.
Then write a paragraph about all these things.
Using all your senses to describe your surroundings will help you become
a better writer.
Photo
Multiplex Area
Fill In The Blanks
1.
The town of ______________outgrew Buffalo because of its location on the
railroad lines.
2.
In 1917 the Wyoming Railroad opened its route from Buffalo to
_______________.
3.
For summer comfort and refrigeration ice was cut from __________________.
4.
The construction technology of building roads were similar to today other
than the power source, which was the __________________.
5.
One of the earliest accounts of mining in Johnson County is that of the
___________________________.
6.
An early sheep outfit consisted of ________________________,
_________________,
and ____________________________.
7.
_________________________owned the first aircraft to be based in Buffalo.
8.
Charles Buell began the Occidental Hotel by setting up a
__________________________.
9.
The first white men in Johnson County were
______________________________.
10.
Most of the red stone used for the Carnegie Library was quarried from
____________________________________.
Frontier
Military Area
Sequencing
(Place
the following events in the proper order)
_______Fetterman
Fight
_______Fort
Reno Established
_______Fort
McKinney Established
_______Wagon
Box Fight
_______Custer
Battle
_______Bozeman
Trail Forts Abandoned
_______Fort
Phil Kearny Established
Early American
Wars Area
Word
Scramble
1.
bbmo
2.
ldaems
3.
otenyba
4.
skisr
5.
earcnbi
6.
lslbuet
7.
ratrmo
8.
grdgea
9.
endgaer
10.
srtdcrgiae
11.
leejtopric
12.
tonimaunim
Wagons & Outside Area
Match
Game
(Draw a line from the question to the matching answer)
Dog What the sheep wagon was heated with.
Bill Norton Where the table is in the sheep wagon.
Federal
Marshal Man's best
friend.
Dean Hazlett
Helps to move the sheep wagon.
Horse Watches the sheep.
Sheepherder
Under the bed Built the prison wagon.
Camp Tender Original owner of the covered wagon.
Wood Stove Used the prison wagon to transport prisoners.
Photographs Trail
the covered wagon covered.
Mormon One of the 3 items a sheepherder needs.
(An Answer Booklet is available - contact the museum)