HomesteadingHomesteading chronicles the Wollaston family's attempt to carve a successful homestead out of the harsh plains around Ismay, Montana, in the period from 1910 to the late 1920's. Beginning with their move west from the Dakotas, the book continues through World War I and the onset of Prohibition to the poignant first signs of the town's demise in the early Depression years. From the workaday details of life - the construction of a house, trapping and hunting, courtships and funerals, saloons and banks, local cowboys and ranchers - to the increasingly tangible signs of the outside world - county extension agents, new roads, the sinking of the Titanic, World War I - Homesteading is a rich and detailed look at the forces that influenced the growing towns of the American West. (6 1/4 X 9 1/4, 156 pages, b&w photos) |
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... XIT RANCH have mentioned a couple of the men who worked for the I well give a bit of the background of this outfit , for there were still a lot of the fellows around THE XIT RANCH who had worked together on the ranch 60.
... XIT RANCH have mentioned a couple of the men who worked for the I well give a bit of the background of this outfit , for there were still a lot of the fellows around THE XIT RANCH who had worked together on the ranch 60.
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Percy Wollaston. THE XIT RANCH who had worked together on the ranch at one time or another and they constituted a sort of fraternity much as buddies in the same outfit in the army . Many of the little happenings of that time concerned ...
Percy Wollaston. THE XIT RANCH who had worked together on the ranch at one time or another and they constituted a sort of fraternity much as buddies in the same outfit in the army . Many of the little happenings of that time concerned ...
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Percy Wollaston. THE XIT RANCH roundup , so at times there might be as many as 150 men gath- ering the cattle in one area . The roundups were headed by the wagonboss of whatever ranch claimed the range being worked , and all mavericks ...
Percy Wollaston. THE XIT RANCH roundup , so at times there might be as many as 150 men gath- ering the cattle in one area . The roundups were headed by the wagonboss of whatever ranch claimed the range being worked , and all mavericks ...
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