Life Tenant

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    Yet they that know all things but know
    That all this life can give us is
    A child’s laughter, a woman’s kiss.
    William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

    To the cry of “follow Mormons and prairie dogs and find good land,” Civil War veterans flocked into Nebraska, joining a vast stampede of unemployed workers, tenant farmers, and European immigrants.
    —For the State of Nebraska, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)