Quotes About Homesteads

Perhaps we should not be as surprised as the visitor to the American West in the middle of the century who remarked that "In Kentucky, in Indiana, in Illinois, in Missouri, and in every dell in Arkansas, and in cabins where there was not a chair to sit on, there was sure to be a Connecticut clock.

The unpolished granite at the limits of homesteads, far fields, dry gulches, smoky hills, a foundation of grassy outlines, clumps of jonquils, and rotting wheels spokes. Rectangular, upright, chest-high squared limestone slabs, these high plains scarred by a single tree and magpie, slowly flying over dry seas.

One scholar has estimated that a third of Dakota homesteads were held by women a decade later.

Though he was still reticent about encouraging a massive exodus, Roosevelt signed Executive Order 7028, granting federal authorities the power to buy back much of what it had given away in homesteads over the previous seventy-three years. The executive order was a stunning reversal of everything the government had done with the public domain since the founding of the republic.

Homesteads fronting on streams went like oranges aboard a scurvy-ridden ship.