Quotation from: The Valley of the Moon

Written by: Jack London


He came back, polishing his glasses, his face beaming, watching
the water as if fascinated by it. It required no more exertion on
Saxon's part to start him than had been required on his part to
start the motor.


"The pioneers settled all this in the early fifties," he said.
"The Mexicans never got this far, so it was government land.
Everybody got a hundred and sixty acres. And such acres! The
stories they tell about how much wheat they got to the acre are
almost unbelievable. Then several things happened. The sharpest
and steadiest of the pioneers held what they had and added to it
from the other fellows. It takes a great many quarter sections to
make a bonanza farm. It wasn't long before it was 'most all
bonanza farms."

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