What are some of the things people used during the manifest destiny?

Per Person: 150 lbs flour or hard bread 25 lbs bacon 10 lbs rice 15 lbs coffee 2 lbs tea 25 lbs sugar 1/2 bushel dried peas 1/2 bushel dried fruit 2 lbs soleratus (baking soda) 10 lbs salt 1/2 bushel corn meal 1/2 bushel corn small keg vinegar pepper Miscellaneous per family: rifle,ball, powder 8-10 gallon keg for water 1 axe 1 hatchet 1 spade 2 or 3 augers 1 hand saw 1 whip or cross cut saw 1 plow mold at least 2 ropes mallet for driving picket pins matches carried in bottles, corked Clothing per person: Men: 2 wool shirts, 2 wool undershirts Women: 2 wool dresses Both: 2 pair drawers, 4 pair wool socks, 2 pair cotton socks, 4 colored handkerchiefs, 1 pair boots and shoes, poncho, brimmed hat Sewing supplies placed in buckskin or stout cloth bag: stout linen thread, large needles, thimble, bit of bee's wax, few buttons, buckskin for patching, paper of pins Personal items: 1 comb and brush, 2 toothbrushes, 1 lb castile soap, 1 belt knife, 1 flint stone per man Cooking: Baking pan-used for baking and for roasting coffee; mess pan-wrought iron or tin; 2 churns-one for sweet, one for sour milk; 1 coffee pot--tin cup with handle, 1 tin plate, knives; 1 coffee mill (forks, spoons per person); 1 camp kettle, fry pan, and wooden bucket for water. Bedding per person: 1 canvas, 2 blankets, 1 pillow, one tent per family. Medical supplies: iron rust, rum and cognac (both for dysentary), calomel, quinine for ague, epsom salts for fever, castor oil capsules.

Well there are a number of things: Conestoga Wagons Plates Family Bible Guns Axe Dog Clothes Usually people did what they had to do to survive on the praries. They didnt see much other people when on the Conestoga Wagons. People most likely encountered Indians, as they made friends and enemies.

Well there are a number of things: Conestoga Wagons Plates Family Bible Guns Axe Dog Clothes Usually people did what they had to do to survive on the praries. They didnt see much other people when on the Conestoga Wagons. People most likely encountered Indians, as they made friends and enemies.