Fell the trees and clear twenty acres of land to seed a crop, raise a cabin with nails and timber, and weather the seasons. On these acres in Point MacKenzie, in the territory of Alaska, is where he will homestead. With the weight of his left hand he wrote his signature, Lawrence J. Beringer, on the promissory title for lot 041180. Should have checked the map, not trusted the man to do his job, this was not an honest mistake. There, his land, his homestead, where his children will call the years.
