Show PIONEER LIFE IS NOT EASY road to success not alway a path of rosea homesteader handicapped by small capital all over the western thera are vest sections of land being developed by people of en all means men of courage and loyal hearted women who have turned their backs on the old home in the east and bended wended their way out into the great west there to take up a homestead and build a home ot their own these are the people that most need the of the government tor few of them have any capital and must depend upon their labor frontier life la hard at best and it takes a great amount of courage and persistent effort to get a start in ufa under the conditions as found there there aro many things to contend with that people in the east know nothing of horse and cattle thieves coyotes hawks ground squirrels and many other annoyances anno ances A man must be a genius and a hustler too for if be succeeds as a pioneer he must know bow to break hersca to work and to aldo rope a steer or horse put on a horseshoe build a house or barn even i the homesteader Is at a great als advantage in having little or no caal tal and nothing tor security to borrow money on A good team a strong harness and wagon are necessary because the roads are rough his fence must t good or the range stock will ruin hla crop and the good wife must stay at home or the coyotes and hawks will catch her chickens she must teach her own children as it Is too far for them to go to school sho must be able to ride a horse milk a cow teed the pigs and do tha chores tor often the husband has to go away from home to work in order to make a living and improve bis claim such Is life on the far w estern iron tier II 11 F H montana |