Homesteading By Percy Wollaston

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it tells it with artful reticence, withholding the tragedy, yet letting it impinge, by suggestion, on the narrative." This quote is very true. The book was very straight forward. There was not much humor, but it sure made the reader feel the frustrating times of the early twentieth century. Percy Wollaston was the main character in the book. It was written from his point-of -view, and his memories of his early life. Mr. Wollaston describes the hard life of pioneer families on the Great Plains. He describes how families, including his own, traveled westward with the railroad to find a bit of fertile land they could call their own. "We chose a location that had a good spring, its permanence indicated by old buffalo and stock trails converging. There was some land suitable for farming, some for pasture and was near an area which he thought no sensible person would homestead but which would be good summer range for stock: His plan was to farm what was necessary for feed while building ...

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didn’t realize it at the time, but our community of first-comers who believed in a rosy future had already started to fall apart at the seams." Families were broken up. "The family did arrive in June: The train got in about three in the morning and they spent the rest of the time until day-light in the lobby of the little hotel. No money was available for a room where the children could rest or wash up. The promised flagstone floor was laid and the lean-to kitchen was built but waster had to be carried from the few pot-holes of run-off which remained after a rain or hauled all the way from the creek a mile away." A community had to be built. This promised land was nothing but dirt. The ...

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