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He believed there might be a better chance of holding him for trial there, and some slight hope of justice. A hail from the gate startled Macdonald. It was the custom of the homesteaders in that country, carried with them from the hills of Missouri and Arkansas, to sit in their saddles at a neighbor's gate and call him to the door with a long "hello-o-oh!"
Therefore 5,000 or more Navajoes are living outside the reservation, on the public domain; and of these, according to Indian Office statements, about 1,000 are unallotted, and under the present law can only be allotted as are white homesteaders, by paying the costs of survey and fees to the land office.
But this nester had held out for more than two years against his forces, armed by some invisible strength, it seemed, guarded against ambuscades and surprises by some cunning sense which led him whole and secure about his nefarious ways. Not alone that, but other homesteaders had come and settled near him across the river on two other big ranches which cornered there against Chadron's own.
Homesteaders who did not know the conditions drifted there on the westward-mounting wave, only to be hustled rudely away, or to pay the penalty of refusal with their lives. Reasons were not given, rights were not pleaded by the lords of many herds. They had the might to work their will; that was enough.
I've recognized the fact, all along, that we need a man stationed right here, living in the country, who will meet prospective homesteaders and talk farming; keep up their enthusiasm; whip the doubters into line; talk climate and soil and the future of the country; look the part, you understand." "So I look like a rube, do I?" Andy's lips quirked a half smile at her. "No, of course you don't!"
He wondered how far the terrors of loneliness had urged Langside into his reckless courses homesteaders scattered about the wide, empty spaces occasionally became insane but with an effort he overcame the sense of pity. Langside had slackly given way, and, choosing an evil part, had become a menace to the community; as Grant had said, he must go.
Ida Mary asked, as he drank the hot coffee and devoured the food ravenously, moving his hands as though they hurt him unbearably. "This mornin'. Been working with that fire since noon; I had started for the chuck-wagon when I smelt smoke...." "Lone Star, why did you risk your life to save a reservation full of homesteaders?" I asked him.
He was usually called “Curly Peter,” or “Rooshian Peter.” The two Russians made good farmhands, and in summer they worked out together. I had heard our neighbors laughing when they told how Peter always had to go home at night to milk his cow. Other bachelor homesteaders used canned milk, to save trouble. Sometimes Peter came to church at the sod schoolhouse.
Homesteaders who would ruin the land that ruined them.... It was not a pleasing picture, but it was more pleasing than the picture he saw of the Flying U after these human grass hoppers had settled there. The range that fed the Flying U stock would feed no more and hide their ribs at shipping time. That he knew too well. Old J. G. Whitmore and Chip would have to sell out.
"With the Lone Star outfit." "Get fired?" "Company gone out of business country getting too popular, what with homesteaders, forest rangers, and Mary's little lamb," explained Steve. "Hm! Can you ride a bucker?" "I can pull leather and kinder stick on." "I'll try you out for a week at two-fifty a day if you like." "You've hired Steve Yeager," promptly announced the owner of that name.
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