It is the 1880s. The civil war has been over for 15 years. The economic conditions in town I live in have deteriorated, and I am struggling to make ends meet. I’m deciding to go west where there is plenty of land and plenty of opportunities, so I’m going to be a farmer. In the west I have to face opportunities and difficulties. In the west the farmers had to go through many things to get by. Depending on where they lived in the west, farmers were continually working hard every day to maintain the farm and their living environment. Some difficulties the farmers had were lack of water, and extremes of weather. There was a lot of rainfall which made growing crop very successful, but the sun always dried the ground so farmers who didn’t live
