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In his memoirs he says "The farther we got from Okobojo the better off we'd be". But George's great grandfather, all four of his grandparents and his father had all lived, and were now buried on that land. So despite what George said, I'm sure Okobojo was sacred to him. He was now the first in his long line of farmers to be educated in the ways of farming, having graduated from the South Dakota School of Agriculture. Unfortunately, he was also the first to be unable to make a living off the land. I'm sure that was very hard for him. Dad says that George had to shoot many of his hogs during the 30's because he couldn't feed them. Somehow, he'd managed to keep a small herd of cattle thru it all so at least he had something to sell. He got $200 for the herd and, at the time, that was the sum total of generations of hard work. The land wasn't even worth selling. Okobojo had been very hard on George.
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