Laura Ingalls Wilder, who set Little House on the Prairie in Wisconsin, grew up at a time when some neighbors were starving. It sure looks prettier in a novelization, or at the distance of a hundred or hundred and fifty years. It's so long since I read that series of books that I really don't remember why her father kept moving on. Was there any reason? The land over the next hill always looking greener? Ashley ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Seems like I've been chasing the same core group of > "early settlers" from one county to the next. Wish they'd "settle" already! > Biggest reasons for movement seem to be getting a wife or a job, or > responding to Government land going on the market. I bet if I took a map and > wrote the date on every county when land came on the market, it would show a > path taken by many. Seems some made an occupation out of buying Gov't land > and clearing it, then reselling. Hard way to make a living if you ask me! >