Homesteading

made his move. He bullied several of his short list of friends, extracted what few dollars they could abandon and Hudson’d to the source of his addiction, homesteading in what he soon learned was the idyllic prison and parolee metropolis of Saint Johnsbury; a metropolis known and beloved as St. J to its denizens because Saint Johnsbury took too long to pronounce, took too long to write and took too long to type…

In the years succeeding the War of 1812, the land disputes between Natives and U.S. settlements increasingly demanded a solution; Congress eventually passed the Indian Removal Act of 1830, which they believed would settle the century-long land disputes with Natives. This act forced all Native settlements to migrate to the lands west of the Mississippi so that U.S. settlements would be able to expand further. Between the years 1828 and 1838, over 80,000 American Indians were removed from their…

Once across, they boarded the Lusitania and chugged across the atlantic, without any added drama. Once everyone was safely reunited in NYC, they moved to the colder climates of North Dakota. Hard times struck and in 1918 they struck out for homesteading opportunities in Moose jaw SK,…