Shopping in the prairie!!!?how did they get stuff?[[1800's]]?

Question

what did people buy in the 1800's && what did they travel with?

Answer 1

The 1800s saw great changes. I assume you are talking about rural areas in about the middle of the century.

Clothes would generally be home made but with factory made clothing, thread and buttons etc.

Shoes may have been store bought or home made. Even when my mother was little in the early 1900s shoes were still made and repaired at home. I still have my grandfather's lasts, awls, hammers and an assortment of shoe pegs and nails and some heel leather.

Sunday-go-to-meeting shoes were store bought if possible.

A lot of the food stuffs were made at home. Flour usually came from a local mill on the prairie. Also cornmeal. Locally grown and milled. Often the farmer would take in grain and get a percentage back ground.

A lot of the personal items were a lot like they are today, but made of natural materials. Combs, brushes, tooth-brushes etc.

Things like razors were store-bought. Straight razors, safety razors were not around.

Clothes were worn a lot longer between washings and people didn't bathe as often as today. Even up to the middle 1900s people often only took one bath a week.

Travel would be about as today, a change or two of clothes and underwear, grooming supplies, a book and letter writing supplies.

Answer 2

THey didn't get stuff. They did with what they had. Occasionally a traveling salesman would bring flour and sugar and cloth. Otherwise things were made. Food was trapped, caught, shot or grown. They traveled by foot. There was nowhere to go. And there was not time to got there. They had to tend the house and the farm. You had to grow what you ate. There was no luxury, as we know it. If you were in a hurry, you rode a horse. They did not buy things, because they had no money.

Answer 3

Large groups of horse drawn coaches and wagons that delivered to General Mechaniles(stores). These people usually lived within a day or two of some kind of supply town. Other than that, they raised their own crops, livestock for meat and for trade. They recycled flour sacks for blankets and clothes and often made their own shoes. Eventually trains were invented which made things a lot easier. Trains and telegraph and phones were like internet and space travel today.

Answer 4

I think they traveled pretty light. They just bought food and clothes, fabric, household things. people made the things they sold, and somethings could be shipped in,

Answer 5

train, wagoons traded stuff at forts. ie fort laramie, fort robinson. bought stuff at the general store. used what they had. sear cataloge