homesteader

How To Use homesteader In A Sentence

• homesteader" (web master) could build their website. Word Around the Net
• Homesteaders usually came from districts not far removed from frontier conditions. The American Nation: A History of the United States to 1877
• The restaurant takes its name from a local saloon of the early 1900s, when Winthrop was a thriving frontier town serving trappers, prospectors, and homesteaders.
• This 19th-century sawmill, built by Swiss immigrant John Sutter to mill lumber for American homesteaders, became the serendipitous point of origin for the California Gold Rush when a chunk of gold was discovered in its tailrace.
• He was a homesteader on the western prairies. Times, Sunday Times
• As homesteaders, so many of our daily activities lead to the out-of-doors, and therefore keeps us connected to nature and all her changing faces.
• The homesteader was a young man who was beginning to look old without going through a middle age. Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine
• In fact, they are slowly decaying Western ghost towns, relics of 19th-century homesteaders and gold seekers who abandoned them decades ago.
• Confining our conversation to firearms, the most common working gun of the farmer or homesteader in the late 19th century was the double-barreled shotgun.
• A steady stream of miners also clambered over the narrow pass and up this gorgeous valley to the mining camps near Cooke City and Silver Gate, and self-sufficient homesteaders called the compositionally perfect basin with its steep ridges and fins and buttes, home. Canada Free Press