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Updated: June 12, 2025
The Homestead law opened up the road to self-employment by way of free land and agriculture. But in the sixties the United States was already becoming an industrial country. In abandoning the city for the farm, the wage earner would lose the value of his greatest possession his skill. Moreover, as a homesteader, his problem was far from solved by mere access to free land.
His position as supervisor made him automatically a deputy sheriff. But had he been nothing more than a citizen homesteader, his aim would have been quite as sincere. It was nearly daylight when they arrived at The Junction. Shoop accompanied Mrs. Adams to a hotel. After breakfast he went out to get a buck-board and team. Criswell was not on the line of the railroad.
The bachelor homesteader had left it black with grease. When Huey hauled us an extra keg of water we proceeded to take off at least a few layers. We were filling the cracks with putty when a bachelor homesteader stopped by and watched the operation in disgust. "Where you goin' to run your scrub-water," he wanted to know, "with the cracks and knotholes stopped up?"
He never did get around to taking Ida Mary and me back to Pierre. And to our dismay a homesteader drove up one day with the big box of household goods we had shipped out. The stage express had brought it out from Pierre to McClure, and it had been hauled the rest of the way by the first homesteader coming our way.
The ground was carefully searched and a rope stretched before we turned in, but it was a haggard, white-faced group which started back the next morning. True, there hadn't been any rattlesnakes, but from the amount of thinking about them that had been done that night, there might as well have been. A young homesteader rushed into the print shop one day, white as a sheet.
Experimenting need cost the homesteader no more than the work, because by applying to the Department of Agriculture at Washington he can get enough of any seed and as many kinds as he wants to make a thorough trial, and it doesn't even cost postage.
They had codded one another until Joe had shown some spirit, when the old man suggested they play a little game of cards for fun, but Stallings had insisted on stakes to make it interesting, and on the old homesteader pleading poverty, they had agreed to make it for a dollar on the corner.
More than likely, all that was wrong was that I was approaching 40; with the onset of middle age I would naturally have more aches and pains. 'Take some aspirin and get used to it, was his advice. 'It'll only get worse. Not satisfied with his dismal prognosis I asked an energetic old guy I knew named Paul, an '80-something homesteader who was renowned for his organic garden and his good health.
Every homesteader who had a tug that would fasten over a doubletree, a wagon that could still squeak, or a flivver that had a bolt in it, went into the transportation business hauling the seekers from Pierre or from McClure to look at the land. A generation before people had migrated in little groups in covered wagons to find new land.
"Did you think in this note to tell him to give me a hoss that only travels one way to onct?" queried Sundown. Corliss laughed. "Yes, I told him. Don't forget you're a citizen and a homesteader. We're depending on you." "You bet! And I'll be there with the bells!" Shoop and Corliss watched Sundown top a distant rise and disappear in a cloud of dust. Then they walked back to the station.
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