As Far As I Can See by Kate McMullan

Author:Kate McMullan [McMullan, Kate]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
Published: 2013-01-01T05:00:00+00:00

Later

I have written to Mother and Father. Uncle Aubert will take my letter to Lawrence. He says it will go out on the next wagon east. Uncle Aubert says he will see whether a letter has come from Father.

Pres told me he was going with Charlie and John to gather “buffalo chips.” I wanted to ask what buffalo chips were, but Pres ran off too fast.

George showed me around outside. Uncle Albert has claimed 160 acres of land. To keep it, he had to build a cabin and he must farm the land. Behind the log cabin is a small barn. It is made of prairie-soil bricks, called “sod.” An ox named Kip and a black-and-white milk cow called Mollie live in the barn. Mollie is very fat. George says she will give birth to a calf this summer.

There is a stream nearby. And a grove of trees. George says this makes it a very good claim. He showed me his father’s cornfield. The corn is up to my shoulder now.

George showed me Aunt Margaret’s garden near the cabin. She is growing potatoes, carrots, watermelons, pumpkins, and squash.

The little boys came back from the prairie with six flour sacks of “buffalo chips” — also known as buffalo dung! George told me they dry it in the sacks all summer and then burn it for fuel all winter. I am very thankful that I will not be in Kansas for the winter.

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