Name
Age
Location

Response
Douglas
Age: 13
Bayshore, New York		 Q1: What do you think was the most common way settlers traveled across the West in the early 1800s?
 A1: The most common way settlers traveled across the West in the early 1800s was by wagon.

 Q2:  How does this photograph show how transportation in the West began to change at the turn of the century?
 A2:  Transportation in the west began to change at the turn of the century by the invention of the car made by Henry Ford that changed the way people got around the world.

 Q3:  What do you think a “hide hunter” is, and why do you think white settlers in the West chose to take on this job?
A3:  I think that a "hide hunter" was a settler who killed buffalo for sport, and they also used the buffalo for food and many other resources.

 Q4:  How did life for white settlers and Native Americans on the Great Plains change in the late 1800s?
A4:  Native Americans changed in the late 1800s, they hade to move because settlers killed of herds of buffalo, they also were put in reservations by the government.

 Q5:  How does this photograph show how difficult it was for cowboys to drive cattle to railheads in the American West?
A5:  It was difficult for cowboys to drive cattle railheads in American West because there were a lot of cattle and only a few cowboys.

 Q6: How might this picture show how prices of beef began to change in the late 1800s with overproduction?
 A6:  The picture shows how the beef began to change in the late 1800s with overproduction because there were to many cows, and because the cattle were overpopulated the price decreased rapidly.