Sentence:  He owned exactly six hundred and forty acres of what stretched outside his door; his own original <WSD>homestead</WSD> and timber claim, making three hundred and twenty acres, and the half-section adjoining, the <WSD>homestead</WSD> of a younger brother who had given up the fight, gone back to Chicago to work in a fancy bakery ... 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  A house together with surrounding land and buildings, especially on a farm; the property comprising these.