homesteader

On the upper Buffalo, the Boxley Valley Historic District preserves structures from the 1870s to 1930s, with family farms continuing the traditions of the original homesteaders.

Not in looking for financial gain, but blazing the trail and opening new frontiers, and then allowing private industry to take over in the way homesteaders expanded into the West.

My great grandfather came here as a homesteader in 1882 when it was nothing but wide-open spaces.

Moreover, as a homesteader, his problem was far from solved by mere access to free land.

The homesteader was stooping still, and he made another pace, crouching a trifle, with every muscle hardening.

They clustered about him, and one of them, stooping over the injured homesteader, signed to his comrades.

It turned out that the cowboys had been arrested for lassoing a Norwegian homesteader who had cut their wire.

He's after my chickens, and as new-laid eggs are worth more than Browning to a homesteader, I got out my duck-gun.