 She wrote about her initial Broadview experience in "A Homesteader's Portfolio", first published in 1922.Cold, wind, snow, and drought eventually forced her to sell her dairy herd to repay a loan, and in 1930 she gave up dryland farming and moved east to Niagara Falls, to live with her mother and sister.Later relocating to New York City, she retained possession of Broadview until 1950.