A couple with a son is moving west before 1870 they were living in Massachusetts. Bill the son is sad to be leaving everything behind.
time to say good bye
Then they heard about the homestead act and decided to go west to Colorado using the transcontinental railroad.
we lost everything
i told this was not a good idea
They left everything behind. They suffer from the harsh conditions of the trail. By the time they got of the train people had stolen their stuff. They didn't eat for 3 days.
get off my land
Due to the effects of settlement they get into a war with the natives. Husband Jim gets involved in the Indian war. They fight over food and land
its are land
mom you can make it take strong !!!
betty was washing clothes and out of no where a native came. The wife Betty dies on the open range after an Indian attacker.
hahahaha
all done for mom
They build windmills steel plows groundwater wells barbed wire and sod house they came one of the biggest framers in Colorado all because of the lost of Betty