In the fall of 1913, Laura and Earle Smith, a young Iowa couple, made the gutsy--some might say foolhardy--decision to homestead in Wyoming. There, they built their first house, a claim shanty half dug out of the ground, hauled every drop of their water from a spring over a half…
In the fall of 1913, Laura and Earle Smith, a young Iowa couple, made the gutsy & mdash;some might say foolhardy & mdash;decision to homestead in Wyoming. There, they built their first house, a claim shanty half dug out of the ground, hauled every drop of their water from a spri…