A KANSAS HOMESTEAD · 1870
Under the Homestead Act of 1862, any citizen may file on 160 acres of public prairie. Live upon it, cultivate it, and endure five years, and the land is yours in fee simple. Drought, blizzard, grasshoppers, bankers and bad luck will have other ideas.
Filing fee per the Act. Bring a strong back.
Record those who will make the journey. Grown hands plow; young hands feed hens and haul water.
You have $286 after the filing fee. The claim is a hundred miles west; buy what you cannot make.
A yoke of oxen and a milk cow are already yours from the sale of the old place.