The head of any household, or a single man or woman, could qualify to be given 160 acres of undeveloped land in Montana, Wyoming or Colorado and try and make their own living on it, provided they stayed for at least five years and built a home there. federal government in order to help develop the more unpopulated Western states. She passed away in 1933, but she has beguiled many an hour for me with her honest, gritty-yet-glowing accounts of her life as an early 1900s homesteader in the then-unsettled territory of Wyoming.Just to fill you in with a little background information about homesteading in general – the Homestead Act was enacted in 1862 by the U.S. Summit County, CO ColoradoBecause it’s January, and because the holidays are over, and – oh, just because it’s the season for the traditional “winter doldrums” to set in, I’d like to introduce you to a woman who has become a good friend of mine over this past year.
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