Those are some magnificent old photographs there.
That life was a very healthy life; when 90% of Americans had a rural lifestyle, it was a very healthy nation.
Thanks so much for sharing that with me.
My maternal grandfather homesteaded about 8 sections of Montana after coming from Russia, my paternal one had 10 sections nearby, and being raised with a stepdad, his land along the Red River of Minnesota had been homesteaded in the 1860s. His was Norweigan ancestry.
Lots of sheep, cattle, horses, hogs, goats and chickens in that bunch. My mom even had a viable operation raising ducks and peacocks for a few years.
Sometimes old farmsteads make me sad when I see them and think of how much work went into them and how they have gone back to the earth.