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

In what ways did the frontier people rely on their neighbors and strangers?

Why do you think people helped one another the way they did?

Compare: What do you rely on your neighbors for today? How is this different than from they ways pioneers relied on their neighbors?

Do you think people had stronger or weaker relationships with their neighbors back on the frontier? Why?

Note: You may want to view some of the FRONTIER HOUSE videos two (THE PROMISED LAND) or four (SURVIVAL). Discuss how the participants relied on each other, and what the consequences of not getting along with your neighbors meant back then versus today.

Web sites:

• Pioneer Life
  http://itctel.com/~polson/pioneer.html
  Use this information about general pioneer life to help you understand what people relied on one another for on the frontier.
  
  
• Pioneer Life in Ohio
  http://www.rootsweb.com/~ohpickaw/life.html#new
  Read about how pioneers treated newcomers.
  
  
• PBS: FRONTIER HOUSE
  http://www.pbs.org/wnet/frontierhouse/
  This is a great source of information about life on the U.S. frontier in the late 1800.

Compare: What do you rely on your neighbors for today? How is this different that what pioneers relied on their neighbors for? Do you think people had stronger or weaker relationships with their neighbors back on the frontier? Why?

Note: You may want to view some of the FRONTIER HOUSE videos two (THE PROMISED LAND) or four (SURVIVAL) and discuss how the participants relied on each other, and what the consequences of not getting along with your neighbors meant back then versus today.