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Almost Pioneers - One Couple's Homesteading Adventure In The West (Paperback)
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Almost Pioneers - One Couple's Homesteading Adventure In The West (Paperback)
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Loot Price R357
Discovery Miles 3 570
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In the fall of 1913, Laura and Earle Smith, a young Iowa couple,
made the gutsy--some might say foolhardy--decision to homestead in
Wyoming. There, they built their first house, a claim shanty half
dug out of the ground, hauled every drop of their water from a
spring over a half-mile away, and fought off rattlesnakes and
boredom on a daily basis. Soon, other families moved to nearby
homesteads, and the Smiths built a house closer to those neighbors.
The growing community built its first public schoolhouse and
celebrated the Fourth of July together--although the festivities
were cut short because of snow.By 1917, however, the Smiths had
moved back to Iowa, leasing their land to a local rancher and using
the proceeds to fund Earle's study of law. The Smiths lived in Iowa
for most of the rest of their lives, and sometime after the
mid-1930s, Laura wrote this clear, vivid, witty, and
self-deprecating memoir of their time in Wyoming, a book that
captures the pioneer spirit of the era and of the building of
community against daunting odds.
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