The Sodbreakers: People Who Lived and Died Settling the West

In "The Sodbreakers," Edith Kohl writes of her exciting experiences as she helped countless homesteaders settle the frontier area around Lusk and Van Tassell, Wyoming in the early 1900s. As background, the Homestead Acts offered free ownership of 270 million acres of public land (10% of America) to people who settle the undeveloped lands west of the Mississippi River. 1.6 million homesteaders responded!In Edith Kohl's own words, "It was a hodge-podge of humanity thrown into a topsy-turvy wo...