The Iowa Pioneer Experience
Sketch of first schoolhouse
Man Directing a Two-horse Plow
Wagon and Oxen Illustration, 1848
On the Move in a Wagon
Covered Wagons
Come to Iowa
Pioneers Travel in Groups
Sod Houses
Log Cabins
Frontier Social Gatherings
Interior of Settler Cabins
Pioneer Women
Sickness and Death on the Frontier
Pioneer Children
Covered Wagons
Time Frame: After 1833
Covered wagons in a wagon train. Many European settlers came to Iowa after 1833. They travelled by foot, water and by covered wagons.
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