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PIONEERS OF BIG HORN BASINInto the state of Illinois and I took up resilience with them and went to work.It was here that I was married in 166*1 to Miss Huruh Jane Wragg and it was here that our eight children were born, In 1NS4 we loaded our wagon ut Illinois City, Hock Island county, in the month of September and drove to Keith county, Nebraska, where I liadbeen long enough to have u good sod house built and u good crop grown. The first few years we had tine crops and were doing well. Then came the drouth. Away went everything. For three years we did not raise any thing, * We planted every spring, but there was no harvest. In the spring of 1HJM I I procured a joh out in the Big Horn mount a his making lies for the Hurl burton which was building from Hherl-rInti to Hidings. In the meantime I' foil in with a until who said it was a good country over in the Basin, or onill** west side of I In* mountains. After a while we got a chance lo come over . ,iml found some good potatoes uiui many other vegetables of excellent»j utility. Mr. lt;*. t\ Morgan was livingup on the No wood and had good garden* I bought a few sacks of pi.tmoi^ and t'sik them hack up mi themountains,* hi II,** fall of I MM I went buck to i Wlmisku and (old my family i hit IMil'll* was plenty of water and antne wood out lu i«* and Iold them if they v' ere willing we would move to the r: • ri Mv v iff -nilI she was wHIlne 'lt;• go anv place. 11mi we could noi live dii'li We then got ready as ~oo|j a* ac could. I do not know Juwt I lie lt;Uitlt;*• *f mu ? mrt* hui we landed lien* Nitveia-her *1, IWlg.When 1 came here I he IIrM I inn*ihere we not a resident mi the river \between IVny Hill and the Hurnn Itoger** place, between hen* and Muli- | del- 11, Itefnre I returned three »r four futuilie* hud moved in below wlmie we are now The next spring I Mailed up u bury which II handle I fully for ten years. When I landed t‘ ie I had nhoul lie eeuls led I diil led owe anybody. That ftiints Inis doubled diiee 1 mine lien .tu*L. a- liidor*1. 1 do md now owe an.vI 111011.Vmoiig Hmsc who hud moved Ohio i ln Ihil while Mr, TUInrd was away j jwyr« Stun Judkin* and family. John «
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Basin Big Horn County Rustler
Basin, Wyoming, US
Fri, Apr 23, 1920
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