she lived near laura ingalls wilder, her court on the banks of the creek so homeland near the creek. farmers alternated and wildfires and grasshoppers took out gardens and crops. challenges, five years later pauline proved up or finalized, she owned a 14 by 15-foot cap, cattle, a pig and chickens. she produced 400 bushels of meat, dozens of eggs and 150 pounds of butter. she lived off the land 14 years and then sold it $1280. make additional income for i retirement, she carried the mortgage. a lot of women homesteaders, they would hang onto the land and rented to a farmer and they would have income for the rest of their lives or until they wanted to do something else, an unusual thing for a woman to be able to have her own money in that way. few americans especially women have access to college and the professional life it enables. in july 1862 a few months after the homestead act congress passed the land grant packs and the law created 100 tuition free coeducational public colleges and universities. two thirds of these schools were in the rapidly developing west which desperately needed exp