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Updated: May 14, 2025
"Isn't it wonderful," she whispered. "It's all so strange, like being out of the world, someway." Burke heard the ducks quacking down in the "Moggason," and he, too, felt the silence and immensity of the plain outside. It was enormous, incredible in its wildness. "I believe we're going to like it out here, Blanche," he said. Blanche Burke rose to a beautiful and busy day.
All ages and sexes came to take claims. Old men, alone and feeble, school teachers from the East, young girls from the towns of the older counties, boys not yet of age everywhere incoming claimants were setting stakes upon the green and beautiful sod. Each day the grass grew more velvety green. Each day the sky waxed warmer. The snow disappeared from the ravines. The ice broke up on the Moggason.
After breakfast Bailey and Burke left the "Moggason Ranch" as Bailey called the store and shanty to carry the lumber and furniture belonging to Burke on to his claim, two or three miles away. Rivers remained to work in the store, and to meet some other land-seekers, and Mrs. Burke agreed to stay and get dinner for them all.
It seemed as if God could hear what they said that He was just there behind the glory of the western clouds. Day by day the plain thickened with life. Each noon a crowd of land-seekers swarmed about the Moggason Ranch asking for food and shelter, and Blanche, responding to Rivers' entreaties, went down to cook, returning each night to her bed. Rivers professed to be very grateful for her aid.
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