04:15 With a crop surplus, National Farmers Organization told them to plow under some of their crop. Farmers are so independent that organization comes hard
06:55 Father pulled strings with Secretary of Interior to get homestead
10:35 Details of homesteading. Friction between homesteaders over fraud
12:45 60-year-old man starting over with a homestead
14:35 Describes Lost River's course, and local lakes
18:00 Engineering to turn lake into farmland
21:05 Irrigation keeps land green; describes friend running a lake barge
25:40 Indian War in area before it was farmland
29:15 Tribe massacring camp of soldiers in fog; members of tribe getting $40,000 when reservation broken up
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