- Author
- Lord, Arthur C.
- Date of Publication
- 1975
the concept of the small pioneer
farm from S. W. Fletcher: "The typical pioneer family was young
and poor . . . a team of horses or a yoke of oxen, a plow, a wagon
or ox-cart, a cow or two, and a few simple articles of farm and house-
hold equipment." 17 In 1789, Benjamin Rush pointed out that, "They