![]() ![]() ![]() statistics reference~* Review of Carla Olson Gade's Proving Up *~"Proving Up" by Carla Olson Gade ~ ~ Elsa Lindstrom applies her scientific theories to growing trees on the Nebraska plains, intruding on a handsome homesteader's hard work and experience. ![]() This time, the amount of land that had to be covered in trees was reduced from forty acres to ten and also made exceptions for trees that had been destroyed by harsh climate or grasshopper plagues. ![]() Thursday, March 19, 2015Proving Up, A Novella by Carla Olson Gade, © 2015I love the texture of the collection books with the rippled page edges!The Homestead Brides Collection: Nine Pioneering Couples Risk all for Love and Land by authors Mary Connealy, Darlene Franklin, Carla Olson Gade, Ruth Logan Herne, Pam Hillman, DiAnn Mills, Erica Vetsch, Becca Whitham, Kathleen Y'Barbo.Timber Culture ActMarch 3, 1873"An Act to encourage the Growth of Timber on the Western Prairie"Many hoped that giving settlers deed to public lands in return for growing trees would reshape the environment of the West, giving the claimant possession of 160 acres of public land for no cost in exchange for making improvements to the land if a person planted and nurtured the growth of trees on forty of their 160 acres for ten years, they could claim the land.In 1878, the Timber Culture Act was amended again. ![]()
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