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... land held out hope was not very apt to repine or to drown his lively spirit in sluggish foreboding . The fertile land could be bought at a low price , and after 1862 one hundred and sixty acres could be had as a homestead for the asking ...
... land held out hope was not very apt to repine or to drown his lively spirit in sluggish foreboding . The fertile land could be bought at a low price , and after 1862 one hundred and sixty acres could be had as a homestead for the asking ...
Page 193
... land , brush land , flower land , desert . Each in turn seemed entirely to fill the space of the plains between the mountains . From time to time Homer halted us and detached a man . The business of the latter was then to ride directly ...
... land , brush land , flower land , desert . Each in turn seemed entirely to fill the space of the plains between the mountains . From time to time Homer halted us and detached a man . The business of the latter was then to ride directly ...
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... land's Main Travelled Roads , a group of somewhat unpleasant but truthful stories of farm life on the old frontier after the disap- pearance of the free land . While the free land was becoming scarcer and scarcer , the cities were ...
... land's Main Travelled Roads , a group of somewhat unpleasant but truthful stories of farm life on the old frontier after the disap- pearance of the free land . While the free land was becoming scarcer and scarcer , the cities were ...
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