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caterpillar guy
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Or did they starve off from it by drought, locust, or poor management. Lost farm and went back to town. Great grandsons/daughters became bar owners and got rich. Who knows. Lots of options.
My grandfather's cousin was a failing Norwegian homesteader in N. Dakota. In about 1910 he got
desperate enough to head for work on the Panama Canal. On the train to Chicago, he visited
with a stranger who found out he was an oxen driver. He offered him a job to take care of
all the oxen on a sugar plantation on Martinique in the Lesser Antilles. He agreed to do it.
The family lived there for the rest of the century. I met his son about 20 years ago. He had
moved to Minnesota to retire. Sugar cane still grows, but goes mostly into rum. Big for hot
weather tourism.
desperate enough to head for work on the Panama Canal. On the train to Chicago, he visited
with a stranger who found out he was an oxen driver. He offered him a job to take care of
all the oxen on a sugar plantation on Martinique in the Lesser Antilles. He agreed to do it.
The family lived there for the rest of the century. I met his son about 20 years ago. He had
moved to Minnesota to retire. Sugar cane still grows, but goes mostly into rum. Big for hot
weather tourism.
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