Young Women Homesteaders and The Promise Of The West – Letters To Home

March 15, 2020March 15, 2020 / Gifford MacShane / Leave a comment

Wonderful stories! Reblogged on giffordmacshane.com

In today’s post I will be sharing some letters from women homesteaders in the United States at the beginning of the 1900s. The Homestead Act allowed adults to work land out west in order to own it after a period of time. Their stories are inspiring and enlightening.

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Western Trivia: The Sod Shanty

August 19, 2015January 21, 2023 / Gifford MacShane / 1 Comment

So you've left your home somewhere in the east and staked out your forty acres on the plains. The government is gonna give you a mule. And all of a sudden, you're a farmer, living off the bounty of the land. Sounds like a great life, right? What you might not have realized before you … Continue reading Western Trivia: The Sod Shanty