"...It is well to keep a lookout overhead..."

The article on the left refers to tree stumps in Montana, but the immigrants in Minnesota had to use dynamite sometimes, too.  Buckman was built in a forest--the 1874 map shows the whole area covered with "mostly oak".  

Besides, just think how much FUN dynamiting stumps would be!

Ka-BOOM!! ☺

(Article from Technical World Magazine, about 1910, and map from Minnesota Reflections ☺)