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  • From: "Toni Hawryluk" <tonihawr AT msn.com>
  • To: <homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Homestead] Homesteading, early days
  • Date: Tue, 7 Dec 2004 16:48:17 -0800

----- Original Message ----- From: Gene GeRue<mailto:genegerue AT ruralize.com>

> The horses became so weak from starvation [that?] they were not fit for
> traveling so Mr. Lane would walk 15 miles to what they called the "Dutch
> Settlement" and now known as Swanton, pay $2.00 per bushel for corn and
> carry a sack full on his shoulder making a thirty mile.round trip for one
> sack.

Thank you for giving us a baseline to which we
can compare "modern problems" ....




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