Subdeacon Joe Posted July 22, 2022 Share Posted July 22, 2022 These four sisters (l.-r.), Harriet, Elizabeth, Lucie and Ruth Crisman, photographed in 1886, near Custer County, Nebraska, knew how blessed they were to have each other, as so many other women suffered the loneliness of the frontier. “It was a frontier saying that homesteading was a gamble: ‘Yeah, the United States Government is betting you 160 acres of land that you can’t live on it eight months.’” —Edith Eudora Kohl in her homesteading memoir, Land of the Burnt Thigh Solomon Butcher. More Real Women of the West at https://truewestmagazine.com/article/the-real-women-of-the-wild-west/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Three Foot Johnson Posted July 22, 2022 Share Posted July 22, 2022 My grandfather's homestead soddy in North Dakota, 1908. I still own the mineral rights and collect a quarterly oil royalty check. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wallaby Jack, SASS #44062 Posted July 22, 2022 Share Posted July 22, 2022 What Courage Looks Like ............ absolutely ..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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