Homesteaders


 * __Homesteaders__**- homesteaders are those who farmed claims under the Homstead Act

The first thing homesteaders needed to do was to built a home. Most homesteaders built a dugout or soddie. A dugout only cost $3 to build while a soddie cost $10 to build. A homesteaders life was misreable. There were bugs such as grasshoppers, locuts, and boll weevils ate up some of the crops. Rattlesnakes sometimes hung from the roofs of the soddies.Some settlers who lacked farming skills could not hold onfor five years in order to recieve their claim.



Information porvided by //America Pathways to the Present// page 272-273 Pictures provided by http://www.delsjourney.com/images/close-ups/us/travels_mw/homestead_act/1-7038_Homesteaders_and_Sod_House.jpg