Perhaps the greatest example in the Old West of making lemonade out of lemons is what happened in Dakota Territory in the 1870s. That’s when the Northern Pacific Railway, planned from Minnesota to the Pacific Ocean, got to Dakota and financially collapsed, leaving investors holding worthless railroad bonds. But the federal government had given land grants to promote the railroad, so investors swapped their bonds for that land, selling it off to Easterners who envisioned farms. But not just

March 2014
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- Forrest Fenn, 2014 True Westerner Award Winner!
- Old Tucson’s 75th
- Autry’s Pathway to the Past
- Winchester Warrior
- American Gardens of Eden
- The Best Historical Roadside Markers You Have to See
- Following the Old Spanish Trail
- 10 Face-to-Face, Stand-Up Gunfights
- Jack London’s Alaska
- So who really killed Billy the Kid?
- What were authentic ranch houses like?
- Who were the most dangerous gunmen in the Old West?
- I enjoyed reading the November article on Soiled Doves, but nothing was mentioned about contraception. What did they do to prevent pregnancy?
- Dave Stamey
- March 2014 Events
- Tombstone, Arizona
- You Butter Believe It!
- March Madness
- The Last Bonanza Farm
- Beginning of the End
- Rough Drafts 3/14
- Ann Kirschner’s Favorite Reads
- Shadow on the Mesa
- Montana Divided and United
- A Ranch Woman’s Life
- The Real and Imagined West
- The Bronzed West
- An American Tale: Wild Mustangs and the Spirit of a Nation
- Universal’s 40th Discs