The author’s cherished books tell of her homesteading days. The public lands that opened in the West thanks to the Homestead Act of 1862 offered thousands of Americans a fresh start. In 1868 Charles Phillip Ingalls sold his Wisconsin farm and took his family 600 miles by covered wagon to southeastern Kansas Territory (near Independence). …
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