The Home Prairie

This prairie was transformed into an agricultural landscape by settlers

This open prairie with its fertile soil was one of the primary reasons the Hudson’s Bay Company and Lyman Cutlar chose to come here. After the U.S. Army left in 1874, the land was farmed. Cutlar’s modest homestead (with potato patch) was about a mile north of here. He walked across this field to confess to the shooting of the pig and offer payment. Griffin turned him down and instead asked him for the absurdly high sum of 100 dollars, 20 times more than even the most prized pig fetched at the time.