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In 1862, the United States government created the Homestead Act, fueling westward expansion across the continent by providing settlers the opportunity to claim 160 acres, provided they could pay the small application fee, improve the claim, and (often more challenging) live on it for five years. Some succeeded. Most did not. Don Rowlison and returning guest Dr. Leo Oliva walk us through how the Homestead Act worked, how some people worked the system, and how this legislation and its promise of “free land” was integral in shaping life on the Great Plains.

In exploring the aspects of homesteading, we also visit a replica sod house at The Prairie Museum of Art and History in Colby, KS, and a grove of trees that are the remnant of a timber claim planted in the late 1800s.

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homesteading, railroad, pioneers, Old West, sod house living