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Wednesday, March 01, 2017

A stone cistern and evidence of a potato cellar are all that remain of the Fales homestead near Deaver, Wyoming.

David Fales frequently walks the 87 acres his great-grandparents once called home. Heart Mountain dominates the landscape to the east. Sometimes, he comes across rusty old tools his ancestors used to work the land a century ago.

The Fales family came from Missouri on the heels of the Buffalo Bill Dam project, which opened this part of northwest Wyoming to farming and ranching.

“They came out here with nothing. No roads, no telephones,” Fales said. “Nothing but a patch of land, and they had to build it all from scratch.” To continue reading, click here.

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