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Updated: June 28, 2025
All around were others, less shrewd, who were content to meet matters as they should turn up, forgetting that "The hypocritic days Bring diadems and fagots in their hands; To each they offer gifts after his will." Everywhere was shown the Anglo-Saxon love of land. Each man had his quarter-section or more.
Here one goes on from task to task, each one bigger and more venturesome than the last; acre added to acre, a gasoline tractor to the horse-plow, another quarter-section broken. Mind and body taxed all day and often half the night. One can't sit down and mope."
Many of our old neighbors toiled and sweated and grubbed themselves into their graves years before their natural dying days, in getting a living on a quarter-section of land and vaguely trying to get rich, while bread and raiment might have been serenely won on less than a fourth of this land, and time gained to get better acquainted with God.
Later, one Jethro Simsby, a Mormon deserter, set up his rod and staff on the banks of the creek, home-steaded a quarter-section of the sage-brush plain, and in due time came to be known as the Dry Creek cattle king.
"I'd only make a few dollars an acre on the deal, and I can get ten per cent. on my money right in this hotel." "You'd have to wait a year for it, wouldn't you? What price will give you ten per cent. profit on this quarter-section? You want to remember that you may get it in a few weeks, and you'd have first-class security." After making a rough calculation in his notebook, the agent looked up.
I shall tell you about him a little later. I have so much to tell I scarce know how to begin. Well, a beginning. I was born on a quarter-section in Minnesota. My mother was the daughter of an immigrant Swede. Her name was Hilda Tonnesson. My father was Chauncey Standing, of old American stock.
Convince any man that you have the range, and the cattle will be forthcoming to occupy it." "But we only hold a quarter-section of land," replied the boy in his bewilderment. "Good. Take possession of the range, occupy it with cattle, and every one will respect your prior right," argued the practical man. "Range is being rapidly taken up in this western country. Here's your chance.
"Well, what is a quarter-section, as you are so knowing?" demanded Sandy. "I don't believe you know yourself." "It is a quarter of a section of public land," answered the lad. That's all," and Charlie looked to his father for approval. "Pretty good, Charlie," said his uncle. "How many acres are there in a quarter-section of land?"
Hamlin was lazy and shiftless, seemingly contented to drift along in an aimless way, regardless of what happened to him. There was at Hamlin's feet some of the wealth that other cattlemen of the district were gaining. He had proved on a quarter-section of good grass land amid plenty of water, and yet he chose to steal cattle rather than raise them.
And then one gray, chilly day in November, with the first feathery snowflakes, he rode up on his cow pony to say good-by. He was leaving the country, taking a bunch of cattle down to Texas for winter range. He was glad to be going. "Don't see how folks can live huddled up with somebody on every quarter-section. Homesteaders is ruinin' the country, makin' it a tore-up place to live.
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