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Learn how the U.S. government once gave away millions of acres of free land under the Homestead Act. In many cases, the "free" land wound up costing many pioneers much more than they had bargained for, causing some financial ruin and even death. This volume explains the hazardous challenges of daily pioneer life, such as finding the food, water, and fuel that people needed to survive. Book jacket.Steele, Christy is the author of 'Pioneer Life in the American West', published 2005 under ISBN 9780836857900 and ISBN 0836857909.
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