Decaying Doorways
by Cathy Anderson
Title
Decaying Doorways
Artist
Cathy Anderson
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Photograph - Photograph
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I found this on the backroads of Wyoming, somewhere behind Devil's tower I believe, where the tourists don't go. There are many abandoned homesteads throughout the area that were much easier to get to several years ago, when this was taken This speaks to a different life, a hard working spirit that endured many hardships to carve out a life on the great plains.
The Homestead Acts were several United States federal laws that gave an applicant ownership of land, typically called a "homestead", at little or no cost. In the United States, this originally consisted of grants totaling 160 acres (65 hectares, or one-quarter section) of unappropriated federal land within the boundaries of the public land states. An extension of the Homestead Principle in law, the United States Homestead Acts were initially proposed as an expression of the "Free Soil" policy of Northerners who wanted individual farmers to own and operate their own farms, as opposed to Southern slave-owners who could use groups of slaves to economic advantage.
The first of the acts, the Homestead Act of 1862, was signed into law by President Abraham Lincoln on May 20, 1862. Anyone who had never taken up arms against the U.S. government (including freed slaves and women), was 21 years or older, or the head of a family, could file an application to claim a federal land grant. There was also a residency requirement.
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