He still owned the family farm in northwestern Iowa, along with a few 
hundred thousand acres of adjoining land, which he was turning back into a 
tall-grass prairie, complete with herds of bison and real Indians who had 
discovered that
riding around on horses hunting wild game was a better deal than pissing 
yourself in gutters in Minneapolis or Seattle. But for the most part he stayed 
on New Chusan, which was for all practical purposes his ducal estate.