Heading Downtown
Once you found a place to live, you had to have nearby shops and stores, and most Wild West towns had a dedicated downtown area where residents could find the goods they needed. This is the downtown area of Corrine, Utah, and this photo was taken in 1869. Here, you can see the hardware store, the painters, and of course, the jewelry store. You had to do something with your gold, right?
Downtown Street
Going to School
Most children in the East were educated by this time, so when families began to move out West, schools were needed there, too. Teachers were trained in the East and then went West to set up schools of their own. There was also the possibility that a teacher could find a school by answering an ad in an Eastern newspaper, which advertised open positions out in the Western part of the country.
Western Schoolhouse
