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Story Keeper #4–A Wilderness Home

Posted on October 30, 2015October 30, 2015by unbrokengod

  The first winter my great-great-grandfather spent on his homestead consisted of a miserable existence. Proving up a land claim to meet the requirements of the Homestead Act and later the Donation Land Act of 1850 meant living on it for four years, constructing dwellings, and defining boundaries to make the acreage habitable. But it didn’t […]

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