This is called a Private Treaty auction. Day 12 Becky came home for a few days from the pheasant hunting lodge she manages. It is 110 miles from here, so she stays at the lodge during the hunting season and comes home when she can. She lives there during the months of September, October, November and December. She will be home to stay the 22nd of December.
People come from all over the United States to hunt pheasants in South Dakota.
They pay to stay at the lodge and to hunt. She showed me around the community. We visited Shakespeare Garden and the Anne Hathaway Cottage. The garden was established in 1927 and the cottage was built in 1932. The cottage and garden are the site of teas, plays, tours and weddings.