My mother grew up on a ranch just north of here. It's a region she's always longing to return to... the very dirt molecules feel like home to me, too.
This pride in ancestry is as common as knapweed in Montana... 'I'm a fourth-generation Montanan.' 'I'm a third-generation Montana farmer.' 'My family's been stewarding this land for five generations.'
This insistence on the primacy of heritage rings loudest... the more generations you can tack on to your settler-homesteader family tree, the more right you have to determine other people's relationships to this place.
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