Vietnam or Thailand ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
Updated: June 28, 2025
I don't see how people can live, huddled up with somebody on every quarter-section." "Where are you going now?" "Goin' to an honest-to-God range country," he said. "A short-grass country, but rich feed. You can get away from landgrabbers there. It's bigger'n all creation." "Where shall I send the paper?" "Wyoming. The Rawhide country. Just send the paper to Lost Trail. I'll be goin' on there.
Every quarter-section will hold a house, and there will be chimneys in sight in every direction. Churches and better schools will follow. The roads will be planted with trees. There will be fences about the fields, and no Indians to thieve and kill. And this valley, the 'Jim, or the Missouri, will not be the edge of civilization, for the frontier will have moved far to the west.
In pursuance of such a policy, the Dawes Act of 1887 provided for the allotment of a quarter-section to each head of a family, with the proviso that the owner should not sell the land within twenty-five years. This was intended to protect the Indian from shrewd "land-sharks."
Mike got a half-Nelson over in the east-half-east quarter-section of the buck's mouth and throwed his weight on the pliers. The Injun had pretty well wore himself out by this time, and when he felt those ice-tongs he just stiffened out an Injun's dead game that-away; he won't make a holler when you hurt him.
"Of course," said he, "I can't let you have all of it 'but let us say eighty acres, or even I might clean up a quarter-section, here along the east side," and he pointed to a plat of it pinned fast to the deed. "The whole piece," said I, "is worth eight hundred dollars, and not a cent more if it's all good land. That ain't enough."
"But he is not of age to enter upon and hold the land now," said his father, stiffly. So it was settled that the two men should enter upon the quarter-section of farming land, and build a cabin as soon as convenient, and that the claim on the North Fork, which had a fine grove of timber on it, should be set apart for the boys, and a cabin built there, too.
He owned a quarter-section of land, with a heavy growth of prairie dogs on it, and he had almost persuaded the agent to swap him a ticket for this sage brush conservatory, when the ticket seller backed gently out of the trade. Mr. Brown then sat him down on the sidewalk and cried bitterly. I just tell this to show how easily some men weep.
"The nephew of the lady I was with so long Miss Wickham, you know has made me a present of it. Five hundred pounds. That's twenty-five hundred dollars, isn't it? You can take the quarter-section you've wanted so long, next to this one. You can get all the machinery you need. And" she gave a little, happy, mirthful laugh "you can get some cows!
John Cardigan settled in Humboldt County, where the sequoia sempervirens attains the pinnacle of its glory, and with the lust for conquest hot in his blood, he filed upon a quarter-section of the timber almost on the shore of Humboldt Bay land upon which a city subsequently was to be built.
Every traveler must be astonished to find persons settled on a barren and mountainous country, whilst there are in the United States so many million acres of land of the first quality unoccupied and for sale at so low a rate that a day laborer can in one year with prudence lay up enough to purchase one quarter-section 160 acres. Saturday, Oct. 9. Left McDowell's 7 o'clock a. m.
Word Of The Day
Others Looking