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What problems faced farmers on the Great Plains and how did they solve these problems? To what extend did the railways provide the greatest solution?
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What problems faced farmers on the Great Plains and how did they solve these problems? To what extend did the railways provide the greatest solution? When many people decided to go West to the Great Plains in 1865 those who were farmers faced many problems. Living in America and Europe, they had been used to a very different climate, which was very unlike the desert land of the Plains with its unusual soil and lack of water. Settlers set up their own homes but with no woodland and bricks to use they settle for sodbricks. The houses were built half way under the ground and the roof was made out of turf and eaveboards with a chimney. A kerosene lamp provided light but this was not very efficient and the farmers had to work and live in semi darkness. Wind and rain seeping through the walls would make the mud run and...
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