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> >Does anyone recall what the Ingalls family did for cash? (Laura Ingalls 
> Wilder)
> 

Among a great many other things Charles Ingalls in the books was a furniture 
maker.  He worked logging and as a teamster on occasions.  The mother took a 
job as a cook once.

The idea of homestead farm produce supporting all the cash needs of the 
enterprise is, says I, a modern construct.  When in history did it ever 
happen that 
way?  

James