There's your donation claim, four times bigger than any land you can file on here.

We sold out at ten dollars an acre--more'n our land really was worth, or ever is going to be worth.
It's just the speculators says any different.

Let 'em have it, and us move on.

That's the way money's made, and always has been made, all across the United States." "Huh! You talk like a land speculator your own self!" "Well, if it ain't the movers make a country, what does?
If we don't settle Oregon, how long'll we hold it?
The preachers went through to Oregon with horses.

Like as not even the Applegates got their wagons across.