Use the book and Web sites listed below to answer the following questions. Answers should be supported with examples from the book or Web sites.

What types of homes did pioneers live in?

How did they come to own land?

How do you find homes to live in today?

How do you become a landowner?

Web sites:

• Walton Feed: Homestead House
  http://waltonfeed.com/old/house.html
  See pictures and stories of homestead houses and the people who lived in them (from a slightly later period than BY THE SHORES OF SILVER LAKE).
  
  
• Marshall University: Homesteads
  http://webpages.marshall.edu/~irby1/laura/homested.html
  Easy-to read Web page about homesteads.
  
  
• Marshall University: Sod Houses and Dugouts
  http://webpages.marshall.edu/~irby1/laura/sodhouse.html
  Read about some of the types of houses that Laura and other pioneers lived in.
  
  
• Marshall University: The Ingall’s Family Homes
  http://webpages.marshall.edu/~irby1/laura/album1.html
  See sketches and pictures of the Ingall’s homes.
  
  
• 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 1800s.

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