Excerpt from A Homesteader's Portfolio
From the Department of the Interior I obtained facts as to public lands - for I had no treasure laid up wherewith to buy. Anyway, the virgin soil suited my plan. My farm was to be a true creation.
Gradually the prospective field narrowed itself until I had decided upon Oregon. Then, that I might not be a pauper immigrant, I decided to pro cure a school in the state and take what time might be required for finding my waiting acres. Through the State Superintendent, rather late, I obtained a position as primary teacher in the little town of Athena, eastern Oregon, and, on one memorable September day, companioned by an inseparable brown dog, I found myself about to embark upon the great adventure.
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| ISBN: | 9781332333516 |
| Publication date: | 30th January 2018 |
| Author: | Alice Day Pratt |
| Publisher: | Forgotten Books an imprint of Fb&c Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 208 pages |
| Genres: |
Children’s / Teenage fiction: General, modern and contemporary fiction |