government land

There is no doubt the Government land unsettled and untouched in this province amounts to 90 per cent.

This meant that he would push out on the newly accessible government land in Iowa, Minnesota, and the Dakotas in turn.

But about this time the pioneer settlers began swarming over the Pacific Slope and taking the free government land as homesteads.

Having arrived at Beloit, they managed here to secure a map and from it got some idea of where government land was to be had.

Here each took a claim of government land; of this we shall speak more at length in the chapter on Wiota.