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Mr. Van Buskirk homesteaded out on the Wright Creek Road in the 20's. His name has been mentioned in articles regarding the Farmers Institute as far back as 1924. He was somewhat of a conservationist because his field was the "stomping ground" of the prairie chicken. No one dared shoot one of these birds when he was there. They would sit up in the trees in the springtime and sing, making a sound like water dripping out of a bottle. When he left, the birds were hunted almost to extinction.
This log house has a very large overhanging roof that makes it quite different from the majority of log houses. The inside walls are either calcimined or painted a pale green color. Of all the settlers that lived on the Wright Creek Road, this is the only house that is left and is quite hard to detect hiding amongst the trees.
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