Seeking Fortune in America

Seeking Fortune in America

Seeking Fortune in AmericaIn the early eighties lads who preferred exercise to examinations looked abroad for work,...
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Author: Grey, F. W. (Frederick William)
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Seeking Fortune in America

Seeking Fortune in America

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Seeking Fortune in America

$18.47 $9.23
Author: Grey, F. W. (Frederick William)
Format: eBook
Language: English

Seeking Fortune in America

In the early eighties lads who preferred exercise to examinations looked abroad for work, and parents who feared their failure in competitions agreed with them. Ditties like had long moved our agricultural class America-wards; perhaps the next line did not so much appeal to middle-class youth, but there were always visions of broncho-busting and rope-swinging. Moreover, no one in England, of whatever class, knew what toil meant, as understood in Canada and the States. Land was easy to get in those days, free grants of 160 acres on certain conditions of exploitation which were often evaded. After weary search from Iowa northward I reached a rolling country dotted with small lakes and groves, leading up to the beautiful vivalley of the Little Saskatchewan. My driver said that some land which I fancied here was certainly taken up, but I saw a Scotchman ploughing and we foregathered. He told me that the other holders around were jumping new grants elsewhere, and that the little breaking which they had done did not fulfil conditions. Investigation proved this, and I bought two square miles at prairie value from the railway whose line was to traverse this very land. My son eventually did not use it, and, twenty years later, still as prairie, it fetched enough to cover the original price plus accumulated interest and taxes. ......Buy Now (To Read More)

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Ebook Number: 57963
Author: Grey, F. W. (Frederick William)
Release Date: Sep 24, 2018
Format: eBook
Language: English

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