This horse collar is braided out of cornhusks that were then sewn together with wooden splints. It is believed that a man named Abel Broughton, who lived near Rockwood in Randolph County, Illinois, made many of these collars and most likely this one.

Internet Resources: Here are some links which will get you started in your quest for knowledge. The Internet is growing at an astounding rate. This list does not include every Website on pioneers, only the best of the sites that we visited! Idaho State University Oregon Trail Home Page at: http://www.isu.edu/ ~trinmich/Oregontrail.html Oz's Kingdom: 19th Century America Web page at: http://members.aol.com/ AACTchrOz/19thcent.html Ohio Pioneers Web page at http://www2.cybernex.net/ ~vinnyp/ohpio.htm

Museum Loan Kit: There are kits available for the topic of Pioneers: Artifact Kits - Pioneer Farm, Pioneer Home, Pioneer Kitchen Audio-Visual Kit - Pioneer Life in Southern Illinois Art Kits can be checked out by Illinois School Teachers free of charge. For a complete list of kit topics please visit: educational loan kits For more information please contact Bob DeHoet at (618) 453-5388 or email him at: drhoet@siu.edu

Printed Resources: The Museum Explorers Library contains books on pioneers. Please visit the bibliography by following this link: http://www.museum.siu.edu/university_museum/ museum_classroom_grant/ Museum_Explorers/bookbibhum.html Books in this special library can be checked out by Museum Explorer teachers free of charge. Please see our Museum Explorers Library Web page. The following is a list of printed materials about the pioneers which may be available through your library: Hinshaw, Dorothy. (1995). West Covered by Wagon: Retracing the Pioneer Trails. Publisher: Walker and Co. Arnold, J.R. (1996). The American West: Living the Frontier Dream. Publisher: Blandford.

Previous Explorer Projects: This is a list of Museum Explorer Projects completed by teachers and students in the last three years. Fort Massac in Metropolis, Illinois, Homepage at: http://www.museum.siu.edu/university_museum/ museum_classroom_grant/Museum_Explorers/school_pages/ ewingnorthern/home.html Come With Us on a Western Journey Homepage at: http://www.museum.siu.edu/university_museum/ museum_classroom_grant/Museum_Explorers/school_pages/ Bristol/PIONEER Pioneer Farming Homepage at: http://www.fayette.k12.il.us/ btown/museum.htm History of Cowden-Herrick and Shelby County in the Late 1800s and Early 1900s Homepage at: http://www.museum.siu.edu/university_museum/ museum_classroom_grant/ Museum_Explorers/school_pages/Cowden/page9.html Illinois Culture: Life on the Prairie Web page at: http://www.museum.siu.edu/university_museum/ museum_classroom_grant/Museum_Explorers/school_pages/ Turner/lifeontheprairie.html Mrs. Mudd's Third Grade SIU Museum in the Classroom Project Homepage at: http://www.museum.siu.edu/university_museum/ museum_classroom_grant/Museum_Explorers/school_pages/ Farmingdale/museumproject.html To view other school pages please visit our Museum Explorers School Pages.

This 1/4" scale model of a log cabin was built during the Great Depression for the Works Progress Administration. This cabin was built with rough logs and a stick and clay chimney. It's construction was typical of log homes built during the 1930s.