homesteaders

Prairie Grass In Southern Nebraska

The Homestead National Monumment honors the thousands of homesteaders that turned vast frontiers into farms, towns and truly developing Mid-America. My ancestors homesteaded in SE North Dakota in 1883. The first homestead was granted in Nebraska in 1863 and the last in 1988 to an individual in Alaska.

Our first thought was how hard it would be to plow this tall grass. It was hard enough to walk thru it but to plow it up to plant crops would be really hard work.