This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/idB.2ACE/5.1 Message Board Post: That area has many miles of the Buffalo Gap National Grassland that may have been leased for grazing. Another possibility is that your Terry leased from family. Either by the 1820 Cash Entry Law or the Homestead Act, there were lands patented in adjoining Pennington Co. or in Jackson Co. by Dora, George Fredk., Pleasant, Robert M., & Wm. S. STEPHENSON. See http://www.glorecords.blm.gov/PatentSearch