Along with the hardships of homesteading came many good times.

Matilda Esoline Evenson-Zackerson
Adams 1908
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"Courting" on a summer afternoon. Matilda Esoline, rifle in hand, with her beau. (Matilda stayed on her land long enough to prove up and then sold it in 1909 for $2,800.)

(Courtesy: Evelyn Conger, Buffalo Gap, SD)

Johanna Kuhn-Peterson
Adams near Haynes 1908
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Johanna (right) and her sister Mary (left) play cards to the accompaniment of a neighbor's banjo.
(Courtesy: Lena Nelson, Solen)

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