Answer the following questions using the chapters, "Unexpected Visitor," and "The Last Man Out" and Web sites listed below to find your answers. You must cite specific passages from the book to support your answers.

What type of medical care was available to pioneers on the frontier?

What types of illnesses fell upon the pioneers?

How is this different than medical care today? What are some concerns people have today about health care?

Compare: How is this different than medical care today? What are some concerns people have today about health care?

Web sites:

• Think Quest
  http://tqjunior.thinkquest.org/6400/first-aid.htm
  Read about first aid available to people as they moved out West to the frontier or West Coast.
  
  
• Ohio Genealogy Page
  http://www.rootsweb.com/~ohpickaw/life.html
  Learn about pioneer foods and medicines.
  
  
• Pioneer Web
  http://www.selah.wednet.edu/SOAR/Projects2000/PioneerWeb/ medicine.html
  Find information on pioneer medicine, food and clothing.
  
  
• The Topeka Capital Journal Online: Medicines on the Frontier
  http://celebrate2000.cjonline.com/stories/100599/his_frontier.shtml
  This is an interesting, easy-to-read article about the types of medicine available on the frontier.
  
  
• PBS: FRONTIER HOUSE
  http://www.pbs.org/wnet/frontierhouse/
  This site is a great source of information about life on the U.S. frontier in the late 1800s.