Homesteaders

That may be why this acreage was grabbed up in the 1880s by John and Florence Pfeiffer, two of the region’s early homesteaders.

Montana is a challenging place to live in modern times and you can imagine the struggles that homesteaders and fortune-seekers faced in the late 1800s and early 1900s.

Photo courtesy of Katie Matthews Nell and Homer Crosby were early homesteaders in Happy Valley.

In early 1873, Longcor’s former neighbour Dr. William Henry York went to search for them, questioning homesteaders along the trail.

Smith said that some farmers and homesteaders will also raise Angora rabbits for meat and showing in order to maximize the potential profit from their working rabbits.

FARMINGTON - On Sunday, Oct. 7, local homesteaders are invited to gather at the Farmington Grange on West Bridge Street for a day of networking, skill sharing and fun as the first annual Maine Harvest Potluck gets underway.

Fraser’s book examines Wilder’s life and the wider context in which her family went west, one of many families attempting to succeed as homesteaders, comparing it to the reality-adjacent version beloved by generations of schoolchildren.

Homesteaders, you are my Ag Heroes!

Leilani Schweitzer, the progeny of German homesteaders in Denton, was always a Fabergé-level good egg.

They are academics, engineers, homesteaders, and co-operative farm owners.

Galen Clark was appointed by the commission as the Grant's first guardian, but neither Clark nor the commissioners had the authority to evict homesteaders (which included Hutchings).

Germans from Russia who had previously farmed, under similar circumstances, in what is now Ukraine were marginally more successful than other homesteaders.

In all, more than 270 million acres of public land, or nearly 10% of the total area of the U.S., was given away free to 1.6 million homesteaders; most of the homesteads were west of the Mississippi River.

Some 10,000 homesteaders settled the area that would become the capital of Oklahoma.

The Kinkaid Amendment of 1904 granted a full section (640 acres) to new homesteaders settling in western Nebraska.

When the rancher gets violent, the homesteaders are divided over whether to leave or to hold onto their claims.