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Yet there, as you ride along the trail, is a cleared space of 160 acres where a Swedish woman and her boys are making hay; and inquiry elicits the fact that millions of acres are yearly homesteaded in the National Forests. Just as fast as they can be surveyed, all farming lands in the National Forests are opened to the homesteader. Where, then, is the trick?
I spent an hour to-day trying to shoot a hen-hawk that's been hovering about the shack all afternoon. He's after my chickens, and as new-laid eggs are worth more than Browning to a homesteader, I got out my duck-gun. It gave me a feeling of impending evil, having that huge bird hanging about. It reminded me there was wrong and rapine in the world. I hated the brute.
"You must have found the shack dirty," she said, with a glance at her spotless house. "A bachelor homesteader had it and they are always the worst. They wait until the floor is thick with dirt and grease and then spread newspapers over it to cover up the dirt. You'll have a time getting it fixed as you want it." We wondered how anyone made a home of a tar-paper shack. To hear Mrs.
Joyce cried out at this, the wide, mobile mouth trembling. "Just now. At the Gusher," said Bob. "They didn't arrest you?" "Not yet. They're watchin' the house. Sit down, and I'll tell it to you." He had gone out to see a homesteader about doing some work for him.
"It's like a poker game; you never know what kind of hand you will hold in the next deal." Planning ahead didn't help much, because something unexpected usually happened. But no matter what hard luck a homesteader had or how much he had paid the government, unless he could meet the payments and all other requirements fully he lost the land and all he had put into it.
I guess I want my own hoss, Pill." "I guess you better get something to eat and rest up. You're in bad shape, Sun." Sundown shook his head. "I got somethin' to do after that mebby I can rest up. Can I have me hoss?" "Yes, if it'll do you any good. What are you going to do?" "I got me homesteader papers. I'm goin' to me ranch." "But you're not outfitted. There's no grub there.
What made this violation of law more flagrant than usual was the fact that these homesteaded coal lands lay at an angle of almost ninety degrees in a sheer wall; and it was an impossibility for any homesteader ever to have put in residence on them.
It was in this part of the country that the greatest increases in the amount of improved land took place, and particularly in the prairie country west of the Mississippi. By 1890 the Plains had lost their earlier unique and picturesque characteristics as a cattle country, and had given way to the homesteader.
Thousands who had not won a claim followed in their wake, and everyone, when he had crossed the Missouri River, heard about the Brulé. The government sent out notice for the appointment of a regular mail carrier for the Ammons post office. Dave Dykstra had resigned to farm his land, and Sam Frye, a young homesteader with a family, was appointed.
I'm about the only homesteader in this valley that ain't got one right now. Some has sever'l." "I can make the coffee, I'm sure," she said, still endeavoring to be of use. But she was skimpy in her measurement, and he reproached her. "That won't make it strong enough. Don't you like it right strong?" "Well, Annie and I," said she honestly, "couldn't afford to make it very strong.
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