Almost Pioneers: One Couple's Homesteading Adventure In The West, First Edition Ernest Lee Tuveson Umstatter's other publications include Brain

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Almost Pioneers: One Couple's Homesteading Adventure In The West, First Edition Ernest Lee Tuveson Umstatter's other publications include BrainIn the fall of 1913, Laura and Earle Smith, a young Iowa couple, made the gutsy some might say foolhardy decision to homestead in Wyoming. There, they built their first house, a claim shanty half dug out of the ground, hauled every drop of their water from a spring over a half mile away, and fought off rattlesnakes and boredom on a daily basis. Soon, other families moved to nearby homesteads, and the Smiths built a house closer to those neighbors. The