Russel Taylor's Letter to the Secretary of the Interior, September 19, 1913
Title
Russel Taylor's Letter to the Secretary of the Interior, September 19, 1913
Description
Russel Taylor wrote a letter to the Secretary of the Interior, explaining his inability to build a house and make the proper improvements to his homestead land by the proper date, as required by law. Russel was a school teacher, as well as a farmer, and when his wife fell ill he was unable to keep up with all the tasks of homesteading. He wrote to the Secretary of the Interior inquiring if he could use the new law extending the improvement time to 12 months instead of six months, as he would have time once school was out of session.
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Creator
Russel Taylor
Source
Warren Taylor, North Omaha History Harvest, 2011
Date
1913-09-19
Rights
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
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document
Type
image
Original Format
Letter
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Citation
Russel Taylor, “Russel Taylor's Letter to the Secretary of the Interior, September 19, 1913,” History Harvest, accessed December 22, 2024, https://historyharvest.unl.edu/items/show/104.