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S6 THE HOUSE THAT SHADOWS BUILT
sign advertising the bonanza crops, the unlimited possibilities and, above all, the free lands of undeveloped northern Dakota. He entered, had a talk with the land agent and emerged in a state of dazzled enthusiasm. For a mere registration fee, the government would give any bona-fide settler one hundred and sixty acres. He himself could take up one of these quarter sections. So could Sam and Herman and Mrs. Kaufmann, making a ranch of six hundred and forty acres in all. That, in Hungarian terms, meant the acreage of a great lord.
For a winter the Kohns and Kaufmanns worked and saved and dreamed. By March, 1884, they had between them exactly three hundred and eighty dollars. In the horse market over by the stockyards, they purchased the outfit of a discouraged immigrant — a rickety covered wagon, a set of mended harness, and three scrubby broncos.
The railroad, by way of encouraging settlers, would rent a box car to Devil’s Lake — the northern terminus — for sixty dollars. Rapid calculation proved this a cheaper way than driving the team. The firm of Kohn and Kaufmann hired a car and loaded aboard the horses, the wagon, and every stick of household furniture which they could spare from Chicago. So, travelling free as horse-traders, Morris Kohn and Herman Kaufmann started on the great adventure. Samuel, Mrs. Kaufmann, and the children were for the present to remain in Chicago, living on Samuel’s wages as a