This is an example of what a district land office looked like in Nebraska in 1874.
http://www.penryfamily.com/surveying/bloomington.html
1819 Land Office
Here is the St. Helena District GLO building in Louisiana.
The last time I was there, it was being used as a Veterans Affair Office.
very small space and it is interesting that they used the greek columns.
The original jail is just up the street and it is two or three times the space.
http://www.nps.gov/nr/travel/louisiana/gre.htm
Rocks?! They had rocks to build it with! How lucky can you get. All we had was prairie grass as high as the head of a rider on horseback.
Nice post, glad they restored it.
Have a great Sunday! B-)
Ps: Before reading your book I googled Valentine and started tracking the “Cowboy Trail” didn’t find out until later that it was the old RR bed!