Letter from Daniel Freeman, the first homesteader under The Homestead Act:

Beatrice Nebraska

Aug 7th 1864

Friend Agnes

...I like the west well we hav a rough but free and easy way that suits me well and this is a good place to rase stock and make money the hard times are scarcely felt here if we git scarce of cloths we make a supply from the skin of the dear antelope and elk—we hav a large yeald of wheat and oats this harvest and corn...

write soon

this from your Friend Daniel Freeman

What does Freeman's letter BEST communicate that is missing from "The Homestead Act: Clearing the Path for Western Settlement"?

A. how settlers were able to grow many crops in the western territory.

B. how living was much easier in the West than the text describes.

C. how settlers made cloth from deer, antelope, and elk skins.

D. how settlers felt about this new and unfamiliar territory.