![]() ![]() At first this dream appears to be coming true: the homesteaders build dugouts and windmills, plow their land, and buy tractors, tripling their production and wealth (from roughly 1915 to 1929).The government pushes for even more wheat cultivation in an effort to support World War I. The Homestead Acts promise the American dream: wealth, prosperity and “every man a landlord!” (36). However, it's the government's push to settle the High Plains by offering free land through the Homestead Acts (beginning in 1862) that draw the greatest number of settlers to the Great Plains. Railroad companies print brochures in German, targeting German Russians (like George Ehrlich), who are desperately fleeing the czar. ![]() Authors write books on how to get rich quickly on the prairie. ![]()
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