Johannes Zegner, an alcoholic homesteader in drought-ridden 1870s Nebraska, tries to convince his son to make a dangerous journey that will help the family obtain the title to their land.
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Johannes Zegner sings of the “queer little trees” at a neighbor’s abandoned homestead. These trees are actually gravestones – crosses made of human bones.
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A deranged, dirt-covered man sings obsessively about the infinite promise of westward expansion. He speaks of his family and how they couldn’t make it, but that doesn’t seem to matter to him because he has fulfilled all the requirements of the Homestead Act. It’s possible that he came to see his family as an impediment to “proving up” and has ki...