Figure 1.--Here we have children in a mountanenous area riding to school on buros/donkeys. Rhe photograph is undated, but looks like the 1910s. Click on the image for a closeup. . |
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Most Americam children lived in rurala areas until the 1920s. This meanr that most children has quite a walk to school. It was miderated to some extent by Amerivan land policy which resulted in the creation of small schools all over rural America. Still some children has long walks, which was difficult for the younger children and could be quite taking during the wiunter, especially in northern states. One solution to this problem was the farm animals which the children could ride. Most farms had docile animal that the children could ride. If the distance was manageable, the children walked, but it was not uncommon for some children to ride buros, mules, and horses. This was pronably not more commomn because the animals ewquired care and pasturage while at school. Riding was more commoin as the Frontier moved West. Here many of the children has longer to walk than east of the Missisippi. This was especially the case as you got into mountanous areas with fewer farms. Here riding school in some instances was almost a necesity.
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