How could he do it?
Well, you can work and buy land with your savings, and land here under the Homestead Act has been $1.25 an acre since 1820; still that may not put you ahead very fast.

And if you're ambitious you want to get rich quick.
That's the way every one here feels who is bent on getting rich.

Money is not as plentiful as land; and if land is only $1.25 an acre it takes $800 to get a section.

That's a lot of money to a man who has nothing.
This land around here is rich as the valley of the Nile.

It is six feet or more of black fertility.