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"We've done mighty well with what we've had to work with," was its attitude. Section 18, Range 77W about thirty miles from Pierre. It seemed more real now. The hotel proprietor promised to find us a claim locator to whom that cryptic number made sense. The next morning at sun-up we were on our way. At that hour the little homestead town of Ft. Pierre lay quiet.
My sister pulled out the filing papers, looking for the description the United States Land Office had given her: Section 18, Range 77W about thirty miles from Pierre, South Dakota. "Three miles from the buffalo waller," our driver said, mumbling to himself, ignoring the official location and looking back as though measuring the distance with his eye. "Yeah, right in here somewhere."
And if one were to pick up the first issues of that newspaper he would see under the publisher's name, "Published on Section 31, Township 108 North, Range 77W, of the 5th Principal Meridian," the only way of describing its location. Ida's claim had seemed to us at first sight to be in the midst of nowhere. Compared to this, it had been in a flourishing neighborhood.
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