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- I wonder if I can put a bid on that land, everyone answers to money. I want to have my own land, but money is tight after the travel.
- Before 1870, people lived in sod houses, conditions during this time were hard. Many had trouble with low supplies along with weather being inconsistent.
- Jess: Hello there, I didn't see you standing behind meHarold: Sorry to startle you, I was just admiring your land, I'm new around here, you mind telling me what you got going on here?Jess: Yeah, no problem, this is my beautiful land. We have barbed wire going around my land so no unwanted people get in and try to steal, we also have ground water wells, wind mills, and steel plows to make the farming easier.
- This place is full of endless land, it's all country side.
- Harold: Hey, what is that land in the distance, behind your house?Jess: Oh, that old thing? Around here we call it an open range, it is free public land...
- Jess: You seem interested in that land, you up for grabs?Harold: Yes, but I don't have much to go on, I just moved hereJess: I have a solution, you can try to obtain it through the Homestead Act, they provide land after you worked 5 years on a farm.Harold: That could help me, after the five years I believe the transcontinental railroad would be better than ever, it would make it easier for me to set up my own farm. It was a nice train, It is how I got here.
- Harold is on the train, he is looking around prior to his arrival to a new place to call home.
- Jess: I must warn you, these Indian Wars have gotten worse. The battle between new settlers and the natives. Settlement around here has it ups and downs, we do have an increase of cattle and crops but the cost is having clashes with the natives.Harold: Am I safe?Jess: Yes, as long as you don't upset the natives even more.
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