Spur Awards Once President Lincoln signed the Homestead Act of 1862, which granted 160 acres of free land to anyone with the grit to farm it for five years, the rush to the Great Plains was on.
He had l.
He didn\'t like farming, but he found another way to thrive.
Butcher (1856-1927) staked his claim on the plains in 1880.
Butcher was there to document it, amassing more than three thousand photographs and compiling the most complete record of the sod house era ever made.
Solomon D.
Spur Awards Once President Lincoln signed the Homestead Act of 1862, which granted 160 acres of free land to anyone with the grit to farm it for five years, the rush to the Great Plains was on