You Can Never Take the Dakota Out of this Girl My Old West Savior columns keep me grounded. A national monument since 1936, the Homestead National Historical Park was created in 2021. The park’s centerpiece living exhibit is 100 acres of prairie grass, which includes some of the first acres ever homesteaded under the rules of the 1862 Homestead Act. Women played a major role in American homesteading, which led to 270 million


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