How Life In The Pioneer Days

How Life in the Pioneer Days’ is Different from Today Have you ever wondered how life in the pioneer days’ was different from life today? I for one find life then interesting. Life was so much simpler then. Could I live like they did in the pioneer days? I am not so sure I could. Those days were so different from today. Those days were so much simpler than today. Communication in the pioneer days was so different than today. In the pioneers days, people communicated by mail, paper and pencil, storytelling, and the telegraph. Many people of this era did not get their mail. Others had to travel long distances to get their mail. Mail carriers had to maneuver over roads that were poor at best and non-existent at worst. Communication was not very good in the pioneer days. Communication methods of today are very different than the pioneer days, in many ways. Today we have telephones, cell phones, social networks, e-mail, we can send text to someone, we also have regular mail to use. Today we have so many more options than they did in the pioneer days. Another way the pioneer days are different from today is transportation. People used covered wagons, horses and buggies, most people walked to get from one place to another. In the mid 1800’s the first railroad tracks were completed. If they were near water they could also take a boat. The pioneers did not have many transportation options like we do today. Another way that the pioneers were different from us is their healthcare. The pioneers did not have as good of healthcare as we do today. The pioneers were very limited with their medicines that they used. They also did not have tests readily available to a lot to them to diagnose alot of diseases. In the pioneer days’ they did not understand mental illness. A lot of the time the pioneers let nature heal sickness, which lead to quite a few deaths. Healthcare has come a long way since the pioneer days’. In todays’ healthcare system we have made many changes. We