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We were frozen stiff and had to have our hands thawed out in cold water when we reached Presho. A homesteader living ten miles out stepped into the land office while we were there. "Don't you girls know enough to stay at home on a day like this? I didn't dare attempt it until I saw you go by. I said to the family, 'There go the Ammons girls, so I hitched up and started.
In 1906 land equal in area to Massachusetts and Delaware was given away; in 1908 a Wales, in 1909 five Prince Edward Islands, and in 1910 and 1911 a Belgium, a Netherlands, and two Montenegros passed from the state to the settler. Unfortunately not every homesteader became an active farmer, and production, though mounting fast, could not keep pace with speculation.
From a sheltered thicket in the foothills the cattleman had watched the homesteader through his field glasses, making certain that he was returning Thorn to the scene of his latest crimes, instead of risking the long road to the Meander jail. Chadron knew that Macdonald would defend the prisoner's life with his own, even against his neighbors.
The Schmidt-McDonald ranch house is located two miles south of Ground Zero. The property encompasses about three acres and consists of the main house and assorted outbuildings. The house, surrounded by a low stone wall, was built in 1913 by Franz Schmidt, a German immigrant and homesteader. In the 1920s Schmidt sold the ranch to George McDonald and moved to Florida.
He laughed hardily, meeting his rival eye to eye. "The boys did have notions, but I expect maybe they have got over them." "Nothing like being hopeful. Now I'd back my show against yours every day in the week." The girl handed his revolver back to Weaver, after first asking a question of the homesteader with her eyes. "Oh, I get my hardware back, do I?" Buck grinned.
So Dave Dykstra was appointed mail-carrier. He was a homesteader who taught the McClure school that winter, a slim, round-shouldered chap, rather frail in physique. Dave would never set the world on fire, but he would keep it going around regularly. Blizzard, rain or sun, he came to the post office every morning those short winter days before it was light.
The post at Fort Shakie had been the nearest neighbor in those days, and it remained the nearest neighbor still, with the exception of one usurper and outcast homesteader, Alan Macdonald by name, who had invaded the land over which Chadron laid his extensive claim.
Originally he was a homesteader, or perhaps a purchaser of cheap land in the early days. He expected not to remain a farmer, but hoped for removal to the East or to a college town. The motives which animated him were varied, but among them none was so prominent as a desire for better education than was provided for his children in the country community of the farmer type.
"Then I think you're a cow-puncher looking for a job, but not very anxious to find one," she was hazarding, answering a question. "No. That leaves you one more guess." "That forces me to believe that you are what you say you are," she mocked; "just a plain, prosaic homesteader."
At the outset he was not, perhaps, more unscrupulous than some of his neighbors. True, if a homesteader left his claim for a longer time than the law allowed him, Bill Warfield would choose one of his own men to file a contest on that claim. The man's wages would be paid. Frequently a Sawtooth man would file upon land before any other man had claimed it.
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