Wednesday, April 10th, 2013
Today in class we preformed quick skits about what people must have thought about traveling west. We had to answer questions like "would just young men be going?", "what's out west?", and "would we go?" All the skits were pretty diverse about the answers, but it all points to one thing: no one knew anything about the west, and those who were going out there were only going in hope of farming. I think I would have traveled out west. The promise of free, open land, a new start, opportunities, a chance to get rich, and also I've kinda of always wanted to live in a place like the prairie. I think it stems from too much "Little House on the Prairie," both the books and television show, as a child. Anyway, people seemed to know nothing except that they hoped for a good life out west.
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